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.
FINNEASWe wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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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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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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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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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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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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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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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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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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I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
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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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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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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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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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I don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
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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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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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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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I feel like the thing that I’ve learned a lot is when you’re involved in something, you don’t always get to appreciate it for what it is as much. You’re focused on the details and how you can make it better. It’s kind of torture.
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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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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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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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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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