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I 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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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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Care Experience Life Myself Person Writing
Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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Children Myself Tools
Imagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timothee Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s currently Timothee Chalamet.
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Identity Imagination Myself
I just have no interest in being at a party.
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Interest Myself Party
I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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Album Myself Travel
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 don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
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Institution Interest Myself Place Record
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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Design Lyrics Myself People Tattoo
I have always loved Ben Folds, he’s like an idol of mine, a hero of mine.
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Hero Idol Love Myself
In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe’s.
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Music Myself Perfection Professional Trade World
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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Fabric Myself Pieces Song Talk
There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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Myself Person Sister Work
We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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Music Record Song Writing
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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Control Day Myself
The 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.
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Artist Family Myself Relationship Time Work
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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Creativity Feeling Myself Privacy Song
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
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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Herself Instrument Myself People See
If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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Attention Goodness Learning Listening Pay Yourself
All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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Love Music Myself Song
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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Feeling Music Myself Production
It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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Check Important Love People Yourself
I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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Annoy Myself People Work
Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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Bored Myself Stuff
The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
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Forever Growth Listening Music Myself
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
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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Analyze Better Curiosity Song Thinking Writing

I 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 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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