All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
FINNEASI’ve learned a lot from my mom and my dad. I learn a lot every time I watch Billie perform.
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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 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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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 really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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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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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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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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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 think it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.
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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 have nothing against reverb.
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I’m not a control freak in that like I boss everybody around, but like a control freak and like, I like knowing exactly what I get to do that day and having a say.
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