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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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I have nothing against reverb.
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Myself Rivalry
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 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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Coffee Fame Myself Recognition Value
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
You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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Growth Teaching Yourself
All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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Album Listening Myself Person Production
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
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 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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Analyze Better Curiosity Song Thinking Writing
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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Better Myself Reason Sound Time Vocal
Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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Crazy Myself Pressure Stress Television 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
There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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Myself Person Sister Work
In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe’s.
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Music Myself Perfection Professional Trade World
There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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Bad Better Choice Language Myself Option Word
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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Artist Myself Togetherness Writing
It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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Important Recognition Remain Song Yourself
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 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
I feel like you’re able to be your most creative in private environments, and not a studio where an A&R person is coming in, telling us a song isn’t a smash.
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Creativity Feeling Myself Privacy Song
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
When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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Party Quality Universe Writing
It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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Check Important Love People Yourself
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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Approach Aware Brain Catalog Music Pieces Song
We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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Character Family Kind
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
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

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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