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.
FINNEASI think we’re always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
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I have always loved Ben Folds, he’s like an idol of mine, a hero of mine.
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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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I don’t particularly like recording studios, they tend to be lifeless and without any natural light, so I wanted to record wherever we lived. We just don’t want to be bound to a studio to who we’d have to pay untold sums to.
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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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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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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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It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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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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I just have no interest in being at a party.
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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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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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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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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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