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FINNEASYou 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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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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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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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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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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I just have no interest in being at a party.
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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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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 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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Imagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timothee Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s currently Timothee Chalamet.
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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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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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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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I have always loved Ben Folds, he’s like an idol of mine, a hero of mine.
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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 think if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.
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