The 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.
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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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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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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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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I’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
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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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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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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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Everybody has different taste and everyone’s favourite song is different and that’s great.
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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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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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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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You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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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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When I started, I felt that there was this incredible amount of doubt of my ability as a producer.
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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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I have nothing against reverb.
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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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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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I’m not a control freak in that like I boss everybody around, but like a control freak and like, I like knowing exactly what I get to do that day and having a say.
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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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The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
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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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