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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More Finneas Quotes
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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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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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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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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 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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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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I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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As soon as you make anything that people like, you get all these new artists hitting you up like ‘I want to sound just like Billie Eilish.’ And I’m always like, ‘Absolutely not.’
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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’ve learned a lot from my mom and my dad. I learn a lot every time I watch Billie perform.
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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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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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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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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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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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