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.
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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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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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 have always loved Ben Folds, he’s like an idol of mine, a hero of mine.
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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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People don’t come to see a Billie Eilish show to come to see me. They come to see her. So I just try not to screw up too much on my instruments.
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I have nothing against reverb.
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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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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
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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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For me, I’m going to try to make my favorite song over the most popular song.
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I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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I don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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I never get tired of writing about love.
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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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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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The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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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 stopped telling people what lyrics meant to them when I saw them tattoo it on them, because it clearly meant much more to them than it ever did to me.
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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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Everybody has different taste and everyone’s favourite song is different and that’s great.
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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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