If you’re thinking about all the possibilities of your life, there are extreme negatives, which you hope don’t happen, and extreme positives, which you just aren’t willing to think about because you think you’ll jinx it.
FINNEASAll my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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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.
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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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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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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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I just have no interest in being at a party.
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I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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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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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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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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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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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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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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If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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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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