I don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
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 idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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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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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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Everybody has different taste and everyone’s favourite song is different and that’s great.
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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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I’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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I love pop songs so much and I don’t put a ton of pressure on myself as a solo artist to always write the most commercial feeling thing, I just want to write things I would love to listen to.
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To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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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 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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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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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.
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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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I’ve learned a lot from my mom and my dad. I learn a lot every time I watch Billie perform.
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I have always loved Ben Folds, he’s like an idol of mine, a hero of mine.
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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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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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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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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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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’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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Well, predominately, if I’m writing for another artist, I’m sitting there with them and we’re writing it together.
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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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You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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