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.
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 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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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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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 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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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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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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There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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I don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
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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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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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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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To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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