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.
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 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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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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I never get tired of writing about love.
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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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If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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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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When we are making a song for Billie I want it to resonate and speak the truth with her and want it to be a piece of fabric she can wear.
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I love pop songs so much and I don’t put a ton of pressure on myself as a solo artist to always write the most commercial feeling thing, I just want to write things I would love to listen 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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Everybody has different taste and everyone’s favourite song is different and that’s great.
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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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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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As soon as you make anything that people like, you get all these new artists hitting you up like ‘I want to sound just like Billie Eilish.’ And I’m always like, ‘Absolutely not.’
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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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I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe’s.
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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 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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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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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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I’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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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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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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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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