To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
FINNEASYou 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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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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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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For me, I’m going to try to make my favorite song over the most popular song.
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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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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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I think it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.
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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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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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Love has always been the most important thing to me and the thing by which my life is guided.
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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 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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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 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 really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
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