You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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.
More Finneas Quotes
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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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If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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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 idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
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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 think we’re always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
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I really value just being able to go out and grab a coffee or going to a movie and not have anyone recognize me.
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I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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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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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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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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I don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
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I just have no interest in being at a party.
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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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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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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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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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I feel like the thing that I’ve learned a lot is when you’re involved in something, you don’t always get to appreciate it for what it is as much. You’re focused on the details and how you can make it better. It’s kind of torture.
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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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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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I was on a TV show called ‘Glee.’ I mean, I was on the real tail end of that show; it was already way past its peak. But still, for me aged 17 landing something like that was a big deal.
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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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I never get tired of writing about love.
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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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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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