I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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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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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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe’s.
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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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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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People 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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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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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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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 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 never get tired of writing about love.
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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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Everybody has different taste and everyone’s favourite song is different and that’s great.
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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 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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