I think if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.
FINNEASIf you’re thinking about all the possibilities of your life, there are extreme negatives, which you hope don’t happen, and extreme positives, which you just aren’t willing to think about because you think you’ll jinx it.
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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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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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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 analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.
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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 idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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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 always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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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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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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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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I don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
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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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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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If you’re thinking about all the possibilities of your life, there are extreme negatives, which you hope don’t happen, and extreme positives, which you just aren’t willing to think about because you think you’ll jinx it.
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