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I 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.

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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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Listening Love Myself Pressure Song Writing
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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Feeling Friendship Honesty Industry Music Myself
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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I think if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.
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Everybody has different taste and everyone’s favourite song is different and that’s great.
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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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Forever Growth Listening Music Myself
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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Control Day Myself
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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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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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 think we’re always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
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Fun Humor Music Myself Thinking
All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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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 have nothing against reverb.
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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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When I started, I felt that there was this incredible amount of doubt of my ability as a producer.
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I don’t analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.
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Analyze Better Curiosity Song Thinking Writing
We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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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 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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It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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Collaboration Myself Relationship
To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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Apart Myself Production
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 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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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 always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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I 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.

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