Everybody has different taste and everyone’s favourite song is different and that’s great.
FINNEASThe way that we tried to approach every piece of music is, if the song had a brain, it would be aware of its catalog.
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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 have always loved Ben Folds, he’s like an idol of mine, a hero of mine.
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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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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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The amount of times I’ve been told something by artists I’m working with, which I’m sure they haven’t told even their significant other or families, is shocking.
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You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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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 never get tired of writing about love.
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The way that we tried to approach every piece of music is, if the song had a brain, it would be aware of its catalog.
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It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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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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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 think if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.
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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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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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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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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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Obviously I’m very grateful ‘Bad Guy’ is doing so well – it’s shocking and surprising and gratifying – but I do think it’s important to try to make the next song that people are gonna be excited about.
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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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I don’t particularly like recording studios, they tend to be lifeless and without any natural light, so I wanted to record wherever we lived. We just don’t want to be bound to a studio to who we’d have to pay untold sums to.
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I’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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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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