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.
FINNEASWell, predominately, if I’m writing for another artist, I’m sitting there with them and we’re writing it together.
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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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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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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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It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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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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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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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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You 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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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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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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I think if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.
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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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