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.
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.
More Finneas Quotes
-
-
I think it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.
FINNEAS -
People were like, ‘he’s collaborating with Taylor Swift’ and I was like, ‘I am?’ I think she’s wonderful. Her songwriting has inspired me for years.
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 -
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.
FINNEAS -
I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
FINNEAS -
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.
FINNEAS -
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.
FINNEAS -
I’ve learned a lot from my mom and my dad. I learn a lot every time I watch Billie perform.
FINNEAS -
I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
FINNEAS -
Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
FINNEAS -
Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
FINNEAS -
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 -
Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
FINNEAS -
We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
FINNEAS -
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.
FINNEAS