Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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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I have always loved Ben Folds, he’s like an idol of mine, a hero of mine.
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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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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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There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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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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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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Love has always been the most important thing to me and the thing by which my life is guided.
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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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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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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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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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Obviously I’m very grateful ‘Bad Guy’ is doing so well – it’s shocking and surprising and gratifying – but I do think it’s important to try to make the next song that people are gonna be excited about.
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I just have no interest in being at a party.
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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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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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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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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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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’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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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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Everybody has different taste and everyone’s favourite song is different and that’s great.
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