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I think we’re always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
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Fun Humor Music Myself Thinking
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
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
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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Herself Instrument Myself People See
When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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Party Quality Universe Writing
I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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Collaboration Myself Relationship
I have nothing against reverb.
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Myself Rivalry
We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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Character Family Kind
I’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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Music Myself Obsession
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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Artist Myself Togetherness Writing
Everybody has different taste and everyone’s favourite song is different and that’s great.
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Different Greatness Song Taste
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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Artist Creation Impersonation Myself People Sound
I feel like you’re able to be your most creative in private environments, and not a studio where an A&R person is coming in, telling us a song isn’t a smash.
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Creativity Feeling Myself Privacy Song
I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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Annoy Myself People Work
I have always loved Ben Folds, he’s like an idol of mine, a hero of mine.
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Hero Idol Love Myself
I just have no interest in being at a party.
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Interest Myself Party
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
I think if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.
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Change Evolution Myself Thinking Try World
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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Control Day Myself
All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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Love Music Myself Song
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.
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Better Detail Feeling Focus Kind Learning Myself
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
Imagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timothee Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s currently Timothee Chalamet.
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Identity Imagination Myself
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
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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Dog Funny Greatness Herself Travel
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
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

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