I don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
FINNEASI never get tired of writing about love.
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If I have experienced something in my life, it’s probably going to be written about, and I don’t particularly care if the person I’m writing about wants to be written about.
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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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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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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 came to NAMM once and saw this guitar that self-tuned, and I thought, ‘Wow, this is the future!’ And I’ve never seen it again.
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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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I never get tired of writing about love.
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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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I really value just being able to go out and grab a coffee or going to a movie and not have anyone recognize me.
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My dreams as a kid were so far below the Grammys, like, maybe selling out a show, or, like, seeing your album on a shelf in an Urban Outfitters… and the Grammys are so far above that. It’s very ridiculous.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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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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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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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 think we’re always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
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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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In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe’s.
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To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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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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