All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
FINNEASIt’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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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 think we’re always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
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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 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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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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For me, I’m going to try to make my favorite song over the most popular song.
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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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I don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
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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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When I started, I felt that there was this incredible amount of doubt of my ability as a producer.
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I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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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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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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Imagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timothee Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s currently Timothee Chalamet.
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I have nothing against reverb.
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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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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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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 need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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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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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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I came to NAMM once and saw this guitar that self-tuned, and I thought, ‘Wow, this is the future!’ And I’ve never seen it again.
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