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.
FINNEASWell, predominately, if I’m writing for another artist, I’m sitting there with them and we’re writing it together.
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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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There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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Imagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timothee Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s currently Timothee Chalamet.
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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 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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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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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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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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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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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 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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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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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 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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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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