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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You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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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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There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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I don’t think if you set out to make an album to get a bunch of Grammy nominations… you just have to set out to make an album you’ll really love.
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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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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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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’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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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 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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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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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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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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