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I’ve learned a lot from my mom and my dad. I learn a lot every time I watch Billie perform.
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Learning Myself Performance Time
When we are making a song for Billie I want it to resonate and speak the truth with her and want it to be a piece of fabric she can wear.
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Fabric Myself Pieces Song Talk
I feel like a lot of music producers have, like, the same toolbox. And I think, like, to me, as a producer, like, I want something to set my stuff apart.
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Feeling Music Myself Production
Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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Children Myself Tools
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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Album Children Dreams Yourself
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 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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Album Love Nomination Thinking Yourself
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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Clear Explanation Fascination Identify Language Learning Love Music Myself
To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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Apart Myself Production
I think if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.
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Change Evolution Myself Thinking Try World
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
The amount of times I’ve been told something by artists I’m working with, which I’m sure they haven’t told even their significant other or families, is shocking.
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Artist Family Myself Relationship Time Work
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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Better Myself Reason Sound Time Vocal
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
For me, I’m going to try to make my favorite song over the most popular song.
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Myself Popular Song Try
I think it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.
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Easy Heroes Story Thinking Yourself

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