I really value just being able to go out and grab a coffee or going to a movie and not have anyone recognize me.
FINNEASI 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 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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I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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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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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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There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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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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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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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 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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When I started, I felt that there was this incredible amount of doubt of my ability as a producer.
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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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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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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 think we’re always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
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