I’ve learned a lot from my mom and my dad. I learn a lot every time I watch Billie perform.
FINNEASOur mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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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 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 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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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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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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I think it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.
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When I started, I felt that there was this incredible amount of doubt of my ability as a producer.
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People were like, ‘he’s collaborating with Taylor Swift’ and I was like, ‘I am?’ I think she’s wonderful. Her songwriting has inspired me for years.
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I just have no interest in being at a party.
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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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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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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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Well, predominately, if I’m writing for another artist, I’m sitting there with them and we’re writing it together.
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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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