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.
FINNEASAll the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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I have nothing against reverb.
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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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It’s always important to be checking in with people you 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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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 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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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 idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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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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To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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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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I think we’re always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
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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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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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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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