I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
FINNEASIf 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’m not a control freak in that like I boss everybody around, but like a control freak and like, I like knowing exactly what I get to do that day and having a say.
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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.
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I was on a TV show called ‘Glee.’ I mean, I was on the real tail end of that show; it was already way past its peak. But still, for me aged 17 landing something like that was a big deal.
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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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If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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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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It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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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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The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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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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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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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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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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