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 never get tired of writing about love.
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I think if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.
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People don’t come to see a Billie Eilish show to come to see me. They come to see her. So I just try not to screw up too much on my instruments.
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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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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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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 you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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I don’t analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.
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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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I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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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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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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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 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 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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Obviously I’m very grateful ‘Bad Guy’ is doing so well – it’s shocking and surprising and gratifying – but I do think it’s important to try to make the next song that people are gonna be excited about.
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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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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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I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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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 usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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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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I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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