Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
FINNEASI 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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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 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 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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When I started, I felt that there was this incredible amount of doubt of my ability as a producer.
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I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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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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I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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I think if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.
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What 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.
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To be honest, I’ve found so many more friends in the music industry than people I disagree with. I certainly haven’t been made to feel like an outsider.
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Definitely for me and my sister, wherever we are the most comfortable is where the best music’s going to be made.
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The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
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In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe’s.
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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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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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