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.
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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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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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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I’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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Imagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timothee Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s currently Timothee Chalamet.
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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 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 really value just being able to go out and grab a coffee or going to a movie and not have anyone recognize me.
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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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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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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.
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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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I had a very positive, wonderful, happy upbringing, and still, for several reasons, I really didn’t enjoy being a child very much. I felt that I had no control over my life and everything seemed scarier and larger than life.
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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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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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Everybody has different taste and everyone’s favourite song is different and that’s great.
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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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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 always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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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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I never get tired of writing about love.
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I just have no interest in being at a party.
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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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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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