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.
FINNEASThe 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 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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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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I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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I think if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.
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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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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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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 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 usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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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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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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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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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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When I started, I felt that there was this incredible amount of doubt of my ability as a producer.
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To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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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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If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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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 don’t particularly like recording studios, they tend to be lifeless and without any natural light, so I wanted to record wherever we lived. We just don’t want to be bound to a studio to who we’d have to pay untold sums to.
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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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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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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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