I feel like the thing that I’ve learned a lot is when you’re involved in something, you don’t always get to appreciate it for what it is as much. You’re focused on the details and how you can make it better. It’s kind of torture.
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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Definitely for me and my sister, wherever we are the most comfortable is where the best music’s going to be made.
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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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I don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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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.
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Well, predominately, if I’m writing for another artist, I’m sitting there with them and we’re writing it together.
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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.
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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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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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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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If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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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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