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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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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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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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 just have no interest in being at a party.
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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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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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I really value just being able to go out and grab a coffee or going to a movie and not have anyone recognize me.
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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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I have always loved Ben Folds, he’s like an idol of mine, a hero of mine.
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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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I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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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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It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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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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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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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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I think we’re always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
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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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I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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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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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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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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