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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To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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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 have nothing against reverb.
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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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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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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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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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When we are making a song for Billie I want it to resonate and speak the truth with her and want it to be a piece of fabric she can wear.
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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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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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I feel like you’re able to be your most creative in private environments, and not a studio where an A&R person is coming in, telling us a song isn’t a smash.
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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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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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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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