black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Finneas

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.
FINNEAS

Great Kind Music Philosophy Place Yourself
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.
FINNEAS

Fabric Myself Pieces Song Talk
I really value just being able to go out and grab a coffee or going to a movie and not have anyone recognize me.
FINNEAS

Coffee Fame Myself Recognition Value
There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
FINNEAS

Myself Person Sister Work
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.
FINNEAS

Control Day Myself
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.
FINNEAS

Album Love Nomination Thinking Yourself
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.
FINNEAS

Chain Children Myself Shop Truck Weird
Everybody has different taste and everyone’s favourite song is different and that’s great.
FINNEAS

Different Greatness Song Taste
It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
FINNEAS

Important Recognition Remain Song Yourself
When I started, I felt that there was this incredible amount of doubt of my ability as a producer.
FINNEAS

Doubt Incredible Myself Produce Start
All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
FINNEAS

Love Music Myself Song
When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
FINNEAS

Party Quality Universe Writing
I just have no interest in being at a party.
FINNEAS

Interest Myself Party
I 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.
FINNEAS

Life Light Myself Natural Pay Record Studio
Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
FINNEAS

Crazy Myself Pressure Stress Television Work
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.
FINNEAS

Clear Explanation Fascination Identify Language Learning Love Music Myself

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Finneas Quotes