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I 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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My dreams as a kid were so far below the Grammys, like, maybe selling out a show, or, like, seeing your album on a shelf in an Urban Outfitters… and the Grammys are so far above that. It’s very ridiculous.
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Album Children Dreams Yourself
I just have no interest in being at a party.
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Interest Myself Party
I’ve learned a lot from my mom and my dad. I learn a lot every time I watch Billie perform.
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Learning Myself Performance Time
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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Feeling Friendship Honesty Industry Music Myself
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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Feeling Music Myself Production
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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Care Experience Life Myself Person Writing
Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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Crazy Myself Pressure Stress Television Work
I have nothing against reverb.
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Myself Rivalry
I don’t think if you set out to make an album to get a bunch of Grammy nominations… you just have to set out to make an album you’ll really love.
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Album Love Nomination Thinking Yourself
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.
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Great Kind Music Philosophy Place Yourself
All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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Album Listening Myself Person Production
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
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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Coffee Fame Myself Recognition Value
Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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Cook Mom Ourselves Poor Try
I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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Bad Body Guitar Instrument Myself Pay
Everybody has different taste and everyone’s favourite song is different and that’s great.
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Different Greatness Song Taste
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
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
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
When we are making a song for Billie I want it to resonate and speak the truth with her and want it to be a piece of fabric she can wear.
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Fabric Myself Pieces Song Talk
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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Design Lyrics Myself People Tattoo
We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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Character Family Kind
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
I never get tired of writing about love.
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Love Myself Tired Writing
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
It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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Important Recognition Remain Song Yourself

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