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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 never get tired of writing about love.
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Love Myself Tired Writing
You know, that’s kind of always been our philosophy: not letting the place that we are get in the way of making great music.
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Great Kind Music Philosophy Place Yourself
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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Control Day Myself
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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Better Detail Feeling Focus Kind Learning Myself
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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Care Experience Life Myself Person Writing
People don’t come to see a Billie Eilish show to come to see me. They come to see her. So I just try not to screw up too much on my instruments.
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Herself Instrument Myself People See
If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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Instrument Live Myself Record
I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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Bad Body Guitar Instrument Myself Pay
Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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Crazy Myself Pressure Stress Television Work
I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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Annoy Myself People Work
Imagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timothee Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s currently Timothee Chalamet.
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Identity Imagination Myself
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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Chain Children Myself Shop Truck Weird
I stopped telling people what lyrics meant to them when I saw them tattoo it on them, because it clearly meant much more to them than it ever did to me.
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Design Lyrics Myself People Tattoo
You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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Growth Teaching Yourself
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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Analyze Better Curiosity Song Thinking Writing
We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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Character Family Kind
To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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Apart Myself Production
I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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Collaboration Myself Relationship
The excuse of having a dog is great, because before I had a dog, I wouldn’t be like, ‘I need to go hike for two hours’; my girlfriend would have been like, ‘What are you doing?’ Now I take the dog, and she comes with me.
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Dog Funny Greatness Herself Travel
I feel like you’re able to be your most creative in private environments, and not a studio where an A&R person is coming in, telling us a song isn’t a smash.
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Creativity Feeling Myself Privacy Song
When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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Party Quality Universe Writing
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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Approach Aware Brain Catalog Music Pieces Song
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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Listening Love Myself Pressure Song Writing
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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Artist Creation Impersonation Myself People Sound
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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Herself Myself People Sound Work
There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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Bad Better Choice Language Myself Option Word
The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
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Forever Growth Listening Music Myself

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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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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