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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
I think if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.
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Change Evolution Myself Thinking Try World
We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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Music Record Song Writing
When we are making a song for Billie I want it to resonate and speak the truth with her and want it to be a piece of fabric she can wear.
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Fabric Myself Pieces Song Talk
There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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Bad Better Choice Language Myself Option Word
I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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Album Myself Travel
I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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Bad Body Guitar Instrument Myself Pay
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
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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Approach Aware Brain Catalog Music Pieces Song
Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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Cook Mom Ourselves Poor Try
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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Artist Myself Togetherness Writing
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
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
It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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Check Important Love People Yourself
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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Better Detail Feeling Focus Kind Learning Myself
For me, I’m going to try to make my favorite song over the most popular song.
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Myself Popular Song Try
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 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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Children Enjoyment Happiness Life Myself Positive Scare
Everybody has different taste and everyone’s favourite song is different and that’s great.
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Different Greatness Song Taste
The amount of times I’ve been told something by artists I’m working with, which I’m sure they haven’t told even their significant other or families, is shocking.
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Artist Family Myself Relationship Time Work
I have nothing against reverb.
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Myself Rivalry
It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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Important Recognition Remain Song Yourself
You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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Growth Teaching Yourself
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
Obviously I’m very grateful ‘Bad Guy’ is doing so well – it’s shocking and surprising and gratifying – but I do think it’s important to try to make the next song that people are gonna be excited about.
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Excitement Gratitude Myself People Shock Surprise
I’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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Music Myself Obsession
I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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Believe Mental Myself Person Preparation

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