I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
FINNEASI am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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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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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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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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Imagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timothee Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s currently Timothee Chalamet.
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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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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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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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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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As soon as you make anything that people like, you get all these new artists hitting you up like ‘I want to sound just like Billie Eilish.’ And I’m always like, ‘Absolutely not.’
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I never get tired of writing about love.
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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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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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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 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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Well, predominately, if I’m writing for another artist, I’m sitting there with them and we’re writing it together.
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I think if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.
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I feel like the thing that I’ve learned a lot is when you’re involved in something, you don’t always get to appreciate it for what it is as much. You’re focused on the details and how you can make it better. It’s kind of torture.
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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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It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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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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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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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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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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