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.
FINNEASI don’t analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.
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People don’t come to see a Billie Eilish show to come to see me. They come to see her. So I just try not to screw up too much on my instruments.
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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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Everybody has different taste and everyone’s favourite song is different and that’s great.
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I love pop songs so much and I don’t put a ton of pressure on myself as a solo artist to always write the most commercial feeling thing, I just want to write things I would love to listen to.
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I just have no interest in being at a party.
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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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When I started, I felt that there was this incredible amount of doubt of my ability as a producer.
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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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To be honest, I’ve found so many more friends in the music industry than people I disagree with. I certainly haven’t been made to feel like an outsider.
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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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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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I really value just being able to go out and grab a coffee or going to a movie and not have anyone recognize me.
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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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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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