You know, I grew up very self-taught.
FINNEASI don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
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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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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.
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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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I was on a TV show called ‘Glee.’ I mean, I was on the real tail end of that show; it was already way past its peak. But still, for me aged 17 landing something like that was a big deal.
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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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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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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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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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To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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I just have no interest in being at a party.
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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 am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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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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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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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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