Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
FINNEASI 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 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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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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The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
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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 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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You know, that’s kind of always been our philosophy: not letting the place that we are get in the way of making great music.
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For me, I’m going to try to make my favorite song over the most popular song.
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You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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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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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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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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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 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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There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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