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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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Album Love Nomination Thinking Yourself
The way that we tried to approach every piece of music is, if the song had a brain, it would be aware of its catalog.
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Approach Aware Brain Catalog Music Pieces Song
I’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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Music Myself Obsession
I think it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.
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Easy Heroes Story Thinking Yourself
We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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Music Record Song Writing
I just have no interest in being at a party.
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Interest Myself Party
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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Life Light Myself Natural Pay Record Studio
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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Feeling Friendship Honesty Industry Music Myself
I think we’re always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
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Fun Humor Music Myself Thinking
In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe’s.
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Music Myself Perfection Professional Trade World
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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Listening Love Myself Pressure Song Writing
I have nothing against reverb.
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Myself Rivalry
If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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Instrument Live Myself Record
All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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Love Music Myself Song
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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Feeling Music Myself Production
I feel like the thing that I’ve learned a lot is when you’re involved in something, you don’t always get to appreciate it for what it is as much. You’re focused on the details and how you can make it better. It’s kind of torture.
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Better Detail Feeling Focus Kind Learning Myself
Imagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timothee Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s currently Timothee Chalamet.
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Identity Imagination Myself
Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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Children Myself Tools
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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Better Myself Reason Sound Time Vocal
Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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Crazy Myself Pressure Stress Television Work
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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Best Comfortable Music Myself Sister
Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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Bored Myself Stuff
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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Excitement Gratitude Myself People Shock Surprise
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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Design Lyrics Myself People Tattoo
It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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Check Important Love People Yourself
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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Album Children Dreams Yourself
I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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Annoy Myself People Work

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