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.
FINNEASWorking on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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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 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 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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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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I have nothing against reverb.
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I stopped telling people what lyrics meant to them when I saw them tattoo it on them, because it clearly meant much more to them than it ever did to me.
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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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Love has always been the most important thing to me and the thing by which my life is guided.
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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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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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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 wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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