All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
FINNEASWhat I really didn’t want to do is work with other people and have them go, ‘Oh, Finneas just does that sound for everybody.’ The Billie sound is only Billie – I’ll only do that for her.
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For me, I’m going to try to make my favorite song over the most popular song.
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I had a very positive, wonderful, happy upbringing, and still, for several reasons, I really didn’t enjoy being a child very much. I felt that I had no control over my life and everything seemed scarier and larger than life.
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You go to a truck stop and there are key chains with names on them, and there’s no Finneas. There’s no Billie. They’re little things, but as a kid, you just feel weirdly ostracized.
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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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Love has always been the most important thing to me and the thing by which my life is guided.
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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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A lot of the time, in pop music especially, there’s reverb. And the reason is that reverb makes vocals sound better 99% of the time. It makes the notes ring out.
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I’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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Imagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timothee Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s currently Timothee Chalamet.
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I feel like the thing that I’ve learned a lot is when you’re involved in something, you don’t always get to appreciate it for what it is as much. You’re focused on the details and how you can make it better. It’s kind of torture.
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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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Definitely for me and my sister, wherever we are the most comfortable is where the best music’s going to be made.
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You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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I came to NAMM once and saw this guitar that self-tuned, and I thought, ‘Wow, this is the future!’ And I’ve never seen it again.
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I just have no interest in being at a party.
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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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The way that we tried to approach every piece of music is, if the song had a brain, it would be aware of its catalog.
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I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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I’m not a control freak in that like I boss everybody around, but like a control freak and like, I like knowing exactly what I get to do that day and having a say.
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I think if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.
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It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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Obviously I’m very grateful ‘Bad Guy’ is doing so well – it’s shocking and surprising and gratifying – but I do think it’s important to try to make the next song that people are gonna be excited about.
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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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To be honest, I’ve found so many more friends in the music industry than people I disagree with. I certainly haven’t been made to feel like an outsider.
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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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I don’t think if you set out to make an album to get a bunch of Grammy nominations… you just have to set out to make an album you’ll really love.
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