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.
FINNEASI 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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Love has always been the most important thing to me and the thing by which my life is guided.
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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 mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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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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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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I think it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.
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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 have nothing against reverb.
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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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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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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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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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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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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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You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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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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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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Definitely for me and my sister, wherever we are the most comfortable is where the best music’s going to be made.
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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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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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I love pop songs so much and I don’t put a ton of pressure on myself as a solo artist to always write the most commercial feeling thing, I just want to write things I would love to listen to.
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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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For me, I’m going to try to make my favorite song over the most popular song.
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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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