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.
FINNEASWhen I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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I love pop songs so much and I don’t put a ton of pressure on myself as a solo artist to always write the most commercial feeling thing, I just want to write things I would love to listen to.
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I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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I am just fascinated by music and I want to know how to identify all the things I love about it; to me music theory is like learning another language and then being able to explain how much you love something more clearly.
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It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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I’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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I have always loved Ben Folds, he’s like an idol of mine, a hero of mine.
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The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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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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Imagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timothee Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s currently Timothee Chalamet.
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What 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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If I have experienced something in my life, it’s probably going to be written about, and I don’t particularly care if the person I’m writing about wants to be written about.
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