I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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.
More Finneas Quotes
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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.
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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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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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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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Love has always been the most important thing to me and the thing by which my life is guided.
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In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe’s.
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When I started, I felt that there was this incredible amount of doubt of my ability as a producer.
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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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I stopped telling people what lyrics meant to them when I saw them tattoo it on them, because it clearly meant much more to them than it ever did to me.
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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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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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I just have no interest in being at a party.
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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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The amount of times I’ve been told something by artists I’m working with, which I’m sure they haven’t told even their significant other or families, is shocking.
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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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