Well, predominately, if I’m writing for another artist, I’m sitting there with them and we’re writing it together.
FINNEASWe were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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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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I just have no interest in being at a party.
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I never get tired of writing about love.
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I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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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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I think we’re always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
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A lot of the time, in pop music especially, there’s reverb. And the reason is that reverb makes vocals sound better 99% of the time. It makes the notes ring out.
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The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
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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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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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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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I have nothing against reverb.
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I’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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As soon as you make anything that people like, you get all these new artists hitting you up like ‘I want to sound just like Billie Eilish.’ And I’m always like, ‘Absolutely not.’
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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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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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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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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 think if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.
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To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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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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