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.
FINNEASWhen I started, I felt that there was this incredible amount of doubt of my ability as a producer.
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I just have no interest in being at a party.
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I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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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 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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When I started, I felt that there was this incredible amount of doubt of my ability as a producer.
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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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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 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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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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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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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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I’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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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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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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