I’m not a control freak in that like I boss everybody around, but like a control freak and like, I like knowing exactly what I get to do that day and having a say.
FINNEASPeople 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.
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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.
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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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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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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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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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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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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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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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You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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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 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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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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