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.
FINNEASAll the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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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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I have nothing against reverb.
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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 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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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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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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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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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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Definitely for me and my sister, wherever we are the most comfortable is where the best music’s going to be made.
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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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I’ve learned a lot from my mom and my dad. I learn a lot every time I watch Billie perform.
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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 just have no interest in being at a party.
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People don’t come to see a Billie Eilish show to come to see me. They come to see her. So I just try not to screw up too much on my instruments.
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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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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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I never get tired of writing about love.
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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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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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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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I think it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.
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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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Imagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timothee Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s currently Timothee Chalamet.
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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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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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