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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.

Finneas

I have always loved Ben Folds, he’s like an idol of mine, a hero of mine.
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Hero Idol Love Myself
Imagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timothee Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s currently Timothee Chalamet.
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Identity Imagination Myself
I just have no interest in being at a party.
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Interest Myself Party
I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
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Adult Age Growth Myself
The amount of times I’ve been told something by artists I’m working with, which I’m sure they haven’t told even their significant other or families, is shocking.
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Artist Family Myself Relationship Time Work
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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Herself Myself People Sound Work
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.
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Fabric Myself Pieces Song Talk
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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Album Children Dreams Yourself
For me, I’m going to try to make my favorite song over the most popular song.
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Myself Popular Song Try
Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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Children Myself Tools
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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Better Detail Feeling Focus Kind Learning Myself
We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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Music Record Song Writing
If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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Attention Goodness Learning Listening Pay Yourself
I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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Annoy Myself People Work
It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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Check Important Love People Yourself
The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
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Forever Growth Listening Music Myself
To be honest, I’ve found so many more friends in the music industry than people I disagree with. I certainly haven’t been made to feel like an outsider.
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Feeling Friendship Honesty Industry Music Myself
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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Life Light Myself Natural Pay Record Studio
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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Hope Life Negative Positive Possible Thinking Yourself
I am just fascinated by music and I want to know how to identify all the things I love about it; to me music theory is like learning another language and then being able to explain how much you love something more clearly.
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Clear Explanation Fascination Identify Language Learning Love Music Myself
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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Feeling Music Myself Production
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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Children Enjoyment Happiness Life Myself Positive Scare
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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Guitar Instrument Myself Surprise
I think it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.
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Easy Heroes Story Thinking Yourself
When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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Party Quality Universe Writing
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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Chain Children Myself Shop Truck Weird
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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Deal Myself Past Reality Show

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