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.
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 never get tired of writing about love.
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I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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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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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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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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I 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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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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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 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 have always loved Ben Folds, he’s like an idol of mine, a hero of mine.
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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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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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People don’t come to see a Billie Eilish show to come to see me. They come to see her. So I just try not to screw up too much on my instruments.
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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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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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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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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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What I really didn’t want to do is work with other people and have them go, ‘Oh, Finneas just does that sound for everybody.’ The Billie sound is only Billie – I’ll only do that for her.
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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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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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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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Well, predominately, if I’m writing for another artist, I’m sitting there with them and we’re writing it together.
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I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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