I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
FINNEASIn my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe’s.
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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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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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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 never get tired of writing about love.
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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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I have always loved Ben Folds, he’s like an idol of mine, a hero of mine.
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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 don’t think if you set out to make an album to get a bunch of Grammy nominations… you just have to set out to make an album you’ll really love.
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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 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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I think it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.
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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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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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