I don’t analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.
FINNEASThe music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
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I have nothing against reverb.
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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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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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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 if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.
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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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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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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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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, that’s kind of always been our philosophy: not letting the place that we are get in the way of making great music.
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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 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 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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