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.
FINNEASWhen I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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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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It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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My dreams as a kid were so far below the Grammys, like, maybe selling out a show, or, like, seeing your album on a shelf in an Urban Outfitters… and the Grammys are so far above that. It’s very ridiculous.
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If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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I’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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I don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
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I don’t analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.
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As soon as you make anything that people like, you get all these new artists hitting you up like ‘I want to sound just like Billie Eilish.’ And I’m always like, ‘Absolutely not.’
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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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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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People were like, ‘he’s collaborating with Taylor Swift’ and I was like, ‘I am?’ I think she’s wonderful. Her songwriting has inspired me for years.
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