I have nothing against reverb.
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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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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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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Imagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timothee Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s currently Timothee Chalamet.
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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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I just have no interest in being at a party.
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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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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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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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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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I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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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 feel like you’re able to be your most creative in private environments, and not a studio where an A&R person is coming in, telling us a song isn’t a smash.
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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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If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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I never get tired of writing about love.
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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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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’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 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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It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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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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To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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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 usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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