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If I have experienced something in my life, it’s probably going to be written about, and I don’t particularly care if the person I’m writing about wants to be written about.

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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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Music Record Song Writing
Imagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timothee Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s currently Timothee Chalamet.
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Identity Imagination Myself
I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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Believe Mental Myself Person Preparation
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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Great Kind Music Philosophy Place Yourself
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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Coffee Fame Myself Recognition Value
We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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Character Family Kind
Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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Children Myself Tools
I think we’re always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
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Fun Humor Music Myself Thinking
It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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Check Important Love People Yourself
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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Listening Love Myself Pressure Song Writing
All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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Love Music Myself Song
I have always loved Ben Folds, he’s like an idol of mine, a hero of mine.
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Hero Idol Love Myself
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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Feeling Music Myself Production
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.
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Herself Myself People Sound Work
You go to a truck stop and there are key chains with names on them, and there’s no Finneas. There’s no Billie. They’re little things, but as a kid, you just feel weirdly ostracized.
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Chain Children Myself Shop Truck Weird
Everybody has different taste and everyone’s favourite song is different and that’s great.
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Different Greatness Song Taste
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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Better Myself Reason Sound Time Vocal
I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
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Adult Age Growth Myself
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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Control Day Myself
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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Best Comfortable Music Myself Sister
I’ve learned a lot from my mom and my dad. I learn a lot every time I watch Billie perform.
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Learning Myself Performance Time
I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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Children Idol Myself People Sister Understand
I don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
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Institution Interest Myself Place Record
If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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Instrument Live Myself Record
All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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Album Listening Myself Person Production
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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Artist Creation Impersonation Myself People Sound
I’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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Music Myself Obsession

If I have experienced something in my life, it’s probably going to be written about, and I don’t particularly care if the person I’m writing about wants to be written about.

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