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.
FINNEASI really value just being able to go out and grab a coffee or going to a movie and not have anyone recognize me.
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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 really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
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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’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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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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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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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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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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The amount of times I’ve been told something by artists I’m working with, which I’m sure they haven’t told even their significant other or families, is shocking.
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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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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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I think it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.
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I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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I just have no interest in being at a party.
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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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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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To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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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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I’ve learned a lot from my mom and my dad. I learn a lot every time I watch Billie perform.
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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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There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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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 really value just being able to go out and grab a coffee or going to a movie and not have anyone recognize me.
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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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I was on a TV show called ‘Glee.’ I mean, I was on the real tail end of that show; it was already way past its peak. But still, for me aged 17 landing something like that was a big deal.
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