Love has always been the most important thing to me and the thing by which my life is guided.
FINNEASPeople were like, ‘he’s collaborating with Taylor Swift’ and I was like, ‘I am?’ I think she’s wonderful. Her songwriting has inspired me for years.
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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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The excuse of having a dog is great, because before I had a dog, I wouldn’t be like, ‘I need to go hike for two hours’; my girlfriend would have been like, ‘What are you doing?’ Now I take the dog, and she comes with me.
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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 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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I think it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.
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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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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 mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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I’m not a control freak in that like I boss everybody around, but like a control freak and like, I like knowing exactly what I get to do that day and having a say.
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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 never get tired of writing about love.
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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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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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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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