I really value just being able to go out and grab a coffee or going to a movie and not have anyone recognize me.
FINNEASThe 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.
More Finneas Quotes
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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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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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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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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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I think if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.
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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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I think it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.
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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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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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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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The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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I think we’re always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
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