The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
FINNEASI think it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.
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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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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 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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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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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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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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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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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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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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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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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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The way that we tried to approach every piece of music is, if the song had a brain, it would be aware of its catalog.
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My dreams as a kid were so far below the Grammys, like, maybe selling out a show, or, like, seeing your album on a shelf in an Urban Outfitters… and the Grammys are so far above that. It’s very ridiculous.
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