I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
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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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I think it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.
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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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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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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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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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Love has always been the most important thing to me and the thing by which my life is guided.
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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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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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I don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
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I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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A lot of the time, in pop music especially, there’s reverb. And the reason is that reverb makes vocals sound better 99% of the time. It makes the notes ring out.
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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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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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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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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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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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I think we’re always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
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To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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I just have no interest in being at a party.
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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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