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 it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.
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I feel like the thing that I’ve learned a lot is when you’re involved in something, you don’t always get to appreciate it for what it is as much. You’re focused on the details and how you can make it better. It’s kind of torture.
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A lot of the time, in pop music especially, there’s reverb. And the reason is that reverb makes vocals sound better 99% of the time. It makes the notes ring out.
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You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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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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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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In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe’s.
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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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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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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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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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I think we’re always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
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To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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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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