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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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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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Feeling Friendship Honesty Industry Music Myself
We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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Character Family Kind
Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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Bored Myself Stuff
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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Herself Instrument Myself People See
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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Collaboration Inspirational Myself People Song Wonderful Writing
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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Care Experience Life Myself Person Writing
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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Herself Myself People Sound Work
It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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Important Recognition Remain Song Yourself
Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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Crazy Myself Pressure Stress Television Work
I don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
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Institution Interest Myself Place Record
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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Artist Myself Togetherness Writing
There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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Bad Better Choice Language Myself Option Word
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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Children Enjoyment Happiness Life Myself Positive Scare
I have nothing against reverb.
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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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Album Listening Myself Person Production
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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Feeling Music Myself Production
I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
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Adult Age Growth Myself
In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe’s.
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Music Myself Perfection Professional Trade World
All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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Love Music Myself Song
To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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Apart Myself Production
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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Guitar Instrument Myself Surprise
I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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Collaboration Myself Relationship
I never get tired of writing about love.
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Love Myself Tired Writing
The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
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Forever Growth Listening Music Myself
When I started, I felt that there was this incredible amount of doubt of my ability as a producer.
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Doubt Incredible Myself Produce Start
We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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Music Record Song Writing
I stopped telling people what lyrics meant to them when I saw them tattoo it on them, because it clearly meant much more to them than it ever did to me.
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Design Lyrics Myself People Tattoo

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