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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.

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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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Best Comfortable Music Myself Sister
Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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Cook Mom Ourselves Poor Try
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.
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Care Experience Life Myself Person Writing
I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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Children Idol Myself People Sister Understand
There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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Myself Person Sister Work
The way that we tried to approach every piece of music is, if the song had a brain, it would be aware of its catalog.
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Approach Aware Brain Catalog Music Pieces Song
To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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Apart Myself Production
I feel like you’re able to be your most creative in private environments, and not a studio where an A&R person is coming in, telling us a song isn’t a smash.
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Creativity Feeling Myself Privacy Song
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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Deal Myself Past Reality Show
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.
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Fabric Myself Pieces Song Talk
You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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Growth Teaching Yourself
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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Hope Life Negative Positive Possible Thinking Yourself
I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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Believe Mental Myself Person Preparation
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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Children Enjoyment Happiness Life Myself Positive Scare
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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Feeling Friendship Honesty Industry Music Myself
If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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Instrument Live Myself Record
I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
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Adult Age Growth Myself
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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Analyze Better Curiosity Song Thinking Writing
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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Guitar Instrument Myself Surprise
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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Clear Explanation Fascination Identify Language Learning Love Music Myself
We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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Music Record Song Writing
All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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Love Music Myself Song
I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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Annoy Myself People Work
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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Album Love Nomination Thinking Yourself
It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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Check Important Love People Yourself
It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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Important Recognition Remain Song Yourself
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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Listening Love Myself Pressure Song Writing

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