I really value just being able to go out and grab a coffee or going to a movie and not have anyone recognize 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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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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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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I’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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I don’t analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.
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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 never get tired of writing about love.
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Love has always been the most important thing to me and the thing by which my life is guided.
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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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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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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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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’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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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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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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I came to NAMM once and saw this guitar that self-tuned, and I thought, ‘Wow, this is the future!’ And I’ve never seen it again.
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There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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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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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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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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If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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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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