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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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Love Music Myself Song
To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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Apart Myself Production
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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Approach Aware Brain Catalog Music Pieces Song
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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Hope Life Negative Positive Possible Thinking Yourself
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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Life Light Myself Natural Pay Record Studio
You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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Growth Teaching Yourself
When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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Party Quality Universe Writing
If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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Instrument Live Myself Record
Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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Children Myself Tools
The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
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Forever Growth Listening Music Myself
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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Better Myself Reason Sound Time Vocal
I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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Annoy Myself People Work
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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Dog Funny Greatness Herself Travel
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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Clear Explanation Fascination Identify Language Learning Love Music Myself
When I started, I felt that there was this incredible amount of doubt of my ability as a producer.
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Doubt Incredible Myself Produce Start
Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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Bored Myself Stuff
I don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
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Institution Interest Myself Place Record
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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Deal Myself Past Reality Show
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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Children Enjoyment Happiness Life Myself Positive Scare
There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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Myself Person Sister Work
We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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Character Family Kind
I think if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.
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Change Evolution Myself Thinking Try World
I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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Album Myself Travel
In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe’s.
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Music Myself Perfection Professional Trade World
If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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Attention Goodness Learning Listening Pay Yourself
I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
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Adult Age Growth Myself
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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Excitement Gratitude Myself People Shock Surprise

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