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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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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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Herself Myself People Sound Work
We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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Music Record Song Writing
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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Learning Myself Performance Time
When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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Party Quality Universe Writing
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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Artist Creation Impersonation Myself People Sound
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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Hope Life Negative Positive Possible Thinking Yourself
I think it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.
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Easy Heroes Story Thinking Yourself
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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Chain Children Myself Shop Truck Weird
Love has always been the most important thing to me and the thing by which my life is guided.
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Guide Important Life Love Myself
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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Album Children Dreams Yourself
Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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Bored Myself Stuff
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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Collaboration Inspirational Myself People Song Wonderful Writing
I have nothing against reverb.
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Myself Rivalry
It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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Check Important Love People Yourself
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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Clear Explanation Fascination Identify Language Learning Love Music Myself
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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Better Myself Reason Sound Time Vocal

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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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