All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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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.
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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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I don’t particularly like recording studios, they tend to be lifeless and without any natural light, so I wanted to record wherever we lived. We just don’t want to be bound to a studio to who we’d have to pay untold sums to.
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You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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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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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
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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 usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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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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I am just fascinated by music and I want to know how to identify all the things I love about it; to me music theory is like learning another language and then being able to explain how much you love something more clearly.
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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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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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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 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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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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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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I think if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.
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I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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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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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
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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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