The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
FINNEASAs 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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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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If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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I never get tired of writing about love.
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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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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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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’ve learned a lot from my mom and my dad. I learn a lot every time I watch Billie perform.
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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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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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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 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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When I started, I felt that there was this incredible amount of doubt of my ability as a producer.
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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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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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