The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
FINNEASI 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.
More Finneas Quotes
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In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe’s.
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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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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 have nothing against reverb.
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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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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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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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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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Imagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timothee Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s currently Timothee Chalamet.
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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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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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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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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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