The excuse of having a dog is great, because before I had a dog, I wouldn’t be like, ‘I need to go hike for two hours’; my girlfriend would have been like, ‘What are you doing?’ Now I take the dog, and she comes with me.
FINNEASI feel like you’re able to be your most creative in private environments, and not a studio where an A&R person is coming in, telling us a song isn’t a smash.
More Finneas Quotes
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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 really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
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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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For me, I’m going to try to make my favorite song over the most popular song.
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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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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 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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It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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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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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.
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I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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I’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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I just have no interest in being at a party.
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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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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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