I feel like you’re able to be your most creative in private environments, and not a studio where an A&R person is coming in, telling us a song isn’t a smash.
FINNEASI 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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I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
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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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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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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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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 think if you set out to make an album to get a bunch of Grammy nominations… you just have to set out to make an album you’ll really love.
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To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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I never get tired of writing about love.
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Everybody has different taste and everyone’s favourite song is different and that’s great.
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I have nothing against reverb.
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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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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’ve learned a lot from my mom and my dad. I learn a lot every time I watch Billie perform.
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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 usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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