I think it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.
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.
More Finneas Quotes
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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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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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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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I had a very positive, wonderful, happy upbringing, and still, for several reasons, I really didn’t enjoy being a child very much. I felt that I had no control over my life and everything seemed scarier and larger than life.
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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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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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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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Imagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timothee Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s currently Timothee Chalamet.
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For me, I’m going to try to make my favorite song over the most popular song.
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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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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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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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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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