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.
FINNEASWhen 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.
More Finneas Quotes
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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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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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Love has always been the most important thing to me and the thing by which my life is guided.
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Imagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timothee Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s currently Timothee Chalamet.
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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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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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The way that we tried to approach every piece of music is, if the song had a brain, it would be aware of its catalog.
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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 idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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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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I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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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 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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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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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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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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You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
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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 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 always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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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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When I started, I felt that there was this incredible amount of doubt of my ability as a producer.
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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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