Obviously I’m very grateful ‘Bad Guy’ is doing so well – it’s shocking and surprising and gratifying – but I do think it’s important to try to make the next song that people are gonna be excited about.
FINNEASI 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.
More Finneas Quotes
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I don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
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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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If you’re thinking about all the possibilities of your life, there are extreme negatives, which you hope don’t happen, and extreme positives, which you just aren’t willing to think about because you think you’ll jinx it.
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I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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Love has always been the most important thing to me and the thing by which my life is guided.
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I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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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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I have nothing against reverb.
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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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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 if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.
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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.
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I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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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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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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