Well, predominately, if I’m writing for another artist, I’m sitting there with them and we’re writing it together.
FINNEASThe 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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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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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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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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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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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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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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I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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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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I think it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.
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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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You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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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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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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I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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