It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
FINNEASAll the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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What I really didn’t want to do is work with other people and have them go, ‘Oh, Finneas just does that sound for everybody.’ The Billie sound is only Billie – I’ll only do that for her.
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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 usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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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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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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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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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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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’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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I never get tired of writing about love.
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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.
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If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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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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