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.
FINNEASYou 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.
More Finneas Quotes
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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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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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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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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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I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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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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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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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 have always loved Ben Folds, he’s like an idol of mine, a hero of mine.
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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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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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The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
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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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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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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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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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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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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 think we’re always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
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I’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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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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Love has always been the most important thing to me and the thing by which my life is guided.
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