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.
FINNEASWe were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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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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I really value just being able to go out and grab a coffee or going to a movie and not have anyone recognize me.
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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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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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Love has always been the most important thing to me and the thing by which my life is guided.
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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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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 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 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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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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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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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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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 have always loved Ben Folds, he’s like an idol of mine, a hero of mine.
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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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