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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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Well, 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 mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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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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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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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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People don’t come to see a Billie Eilish show to come to see me. They come to see her. So I just try not to screw up too much on my instruments.
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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 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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You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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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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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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Imagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timothee Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s currently Timothee Chalamet.
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I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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I never get tired of writing about love.
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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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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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In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe’s.
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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 don’t think if you set out to make an album to get a bunch of Grammy nominations… you just have to set out to make an album you’ll really love.
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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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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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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 don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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