I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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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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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What I really didn’t want to do is work with other people and have them go, ‘Oh, Finneas just does that sound for everybody.’ The Billie sound is only Billie – I’ll only do that for her.
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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 I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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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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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 think if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.
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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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I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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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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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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