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.
FINNEASWe were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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Obviously I’m very grateful ‘Bad Guy’ is doing so well – it’s shocking and surprising and gratifying – but I do think it’s important to try to make the next song that people are gonna be excited about.
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If you’re thinking about all the possibilities of your life, there are extreme negatives, which you hope don’t happen, and extreme positives, which you just aren’t willing to think about because you think you’ll jinx it.
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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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To be honest, I’ve found so many more friends in the music industry than people I disagree with. I certainly haven’t been made to feel like an outsider.
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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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I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
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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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I have always loved Ben Folds, he’s like an idol of mine, a hero of mine.
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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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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.
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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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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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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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