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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 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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Deal Myself Past Reality Show
To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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Apart Myself Production
We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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Music Record Song Writing
I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
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Adult Age Growth Myself
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
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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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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Check Important Love People Yourself
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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Learning Myself Performance Time
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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For me, I’m going to try to make my favorite song over the most popular song.
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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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Feeling Music Myself Production
I don’t think if you set out to make an album to get a bunch of Grammy nominations… you just have to set out to make an album you’ll really love.
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Album Love Nomination Thinking Yourself
There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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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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In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe’s.
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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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Easy Heroes Story Thinking Yourself
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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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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I have nothing against reverb.
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Myself Rivalry
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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You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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Bored Myself Stuff
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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Album Children Dreams Yourself
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
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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