The amount of times I’ve been told something by artists I’m working with, which I’m sure they haven’t told even their significant other or families, is shocking.
FINNEASI’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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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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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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Everybody has different taste and everyone’s favourite song is different and that’s great.
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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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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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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 me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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As soon as you make anything that people like, you get all these new artists hitting you up like ‘I want to sound just like Billie Eilish.’ And I’m always like, ‘Absolutely not.’
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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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I never get tired of writing about love.
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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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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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There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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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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For me, I’m going to try to make my favorite song over the most popular song.
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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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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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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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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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I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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