When I started, I felt that there was this incredible amount of doubt of my ability as a producer.
FINNEASThe amount of times I’ve been told something by artists I’m working with, which I’m sure they haven’t told even their significant other or families, is shocking.
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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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Everybody has different taste and everyone’s favourite song is different and that’s great.
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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 have always loved Ben Folds, he’s like an idol of mine, a hero of mine.
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I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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I just have no interest in being at a party.
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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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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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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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In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe’s.
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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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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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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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Imagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timothee Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s currently Timothee Chalamet.
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I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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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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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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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 think we’re always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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I feel like a lot of music producers have, like, the same toolbox. And I think, like, to me, as a producer, like, I want something to set my stuff apart.
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I’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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