You know, I grew up very self-taught.
FINNEASImagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timothee Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s currently Timothee Chalamet.
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I have always loved Ben Folds, he’s like an idol of mine, a hero of mine.
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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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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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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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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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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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I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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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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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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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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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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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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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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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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I think it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.
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I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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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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What I really didn’t want to do is work with other people and have them go, ‘Oh, Finneas just does that sound for everybody.’ The Billie sound is only Billie – I’ll only do that for her.
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People were like, ‘he’s collaborating with Taylor Swift’ and I was like, ‘I am?’ I think she’s wonderful. Her songwriting has inspired me for years.
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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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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
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The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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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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