I think we’re always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
FINNEASI think we’re always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
FINNEASI don’t particularly like recording studios, they tend to be lifeless and without any natural light, so I wanted to record wherever we lived. We just don’t want to be bound to a studio to who we’d have to pay untold sums to.
FINNEASI 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.
FINNEASThe 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.
FINNEASThe amount of times I’ve been told something by artists I’m working with, which I’m sure they haven’t told even their significant other or families, is shocking.
FINNEASWe were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
FINNEASI 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.
FINNEASIf you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
FINNEASYou know, that’s kind of always been our philosophy: not letting the place that we are get in the way of making great music.
FINNEASAs 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.’
FINNEASWhat 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.
FINNEASI’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.
FINNEASI really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
FINNEASEverybody has different taste and everyone’s favourite song is different and that’s great.
FINNEASWorking on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
FINNEASThe music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
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