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.
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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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If you’re thinking about all the possibilities of your life, there are extreme negatives, which you hope don’t happen, and extreme positives, which you just aren’t willing to think about because you think you’ll jinx it.
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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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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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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 don’t analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.
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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 think if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.
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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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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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Imagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timothee Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s currently Timothee Chalamet.
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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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I have nothing against reverb.
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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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I just have no interest in being at a party.
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