I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
FINNEASTo 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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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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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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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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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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If you’re thinking about all the possibilities of your life, there are extreme negatives, which you hope don’t happen, and extreme positives, which you just aren’t willing to think about because you think you’ll jinx it.
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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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Love has always been the most important thing to me and the thing by which my life is guided.
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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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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 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 just have no interest in being at a party.
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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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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 usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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