Definitely for me and my sister, wherever we are the most comfortable is where the best music’s going to be made.
FINNEASWe wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
More Finneas Quotes
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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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Obviously I’m very grateful ‘Bad Guy’ is doing so well – it’s shocking and surprising and gratifying – but I do think it’s important to try to make the next song that people are gonna be excited about.
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You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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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 just have no interest in being at a party.
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I’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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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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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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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 am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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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 think it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.
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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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To be honest, I’ve found so many more friends in the music industry than people I disagree with. I certainly haven’t been made to feel like an outsider.
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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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I think we’re always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
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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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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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Imagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timothee Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s currently Timothee Chalamet.
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You go to a truck stop and there are key chains with names on them, and there’s no Finneas. There’s no Billie. They’re little things, but as a kid, you just feel weirdly ostracized.
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Everybody has different taste and everyone’s favourite song is different and that’s great.
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