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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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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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I think it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.
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The 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.
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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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Annoy Myself People Work
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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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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I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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Believe Mental Myself Person Preparation
Everybody has different taste and everyone’s favourite song is different and that’s great.
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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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I’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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You know, that’s kind of always been our philosophy: not letting the place that we are get in the way of making great music.
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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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I don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
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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 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 never get tired of writing about love.
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Love Myself Tired Writing
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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I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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Collaboration Myself Relationship
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
There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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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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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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Guitar Instrument Myself Surprise
All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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Album Listening Myself Person Production
I think we’re always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
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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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