“I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.”

Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.

The way that we tried to approach every piece of music is, if the song had a brain, it would be aware of its catalog.

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.

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.

I really value just being able to go out and grab a coffee or going to a movie and not have anyone recognize me.

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.

Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.

I have always loved Ben Folds, he’s like an idol of mine, a hero of mine.

When I started, I felt that there was this incredible amount of doubt of my ability as a producer.

I think it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.

We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.

I don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.

All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.

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.

Imagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timothee Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s currently Timothee Chalamet.

It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.

But all you can do is ignore the annoying hum of the machine and focus on making art that makes you excited to be alive.

As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.

There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you’re annoyed with them.

No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend’s house.

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

Days when I have things to say but have no idea how to pit them out there – are the most annoying.