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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More Finneas Quotes
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It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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I just have no interest in being at a party.
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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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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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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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I think we’re always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
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The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
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I never get tired of writing about love.
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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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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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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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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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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’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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I have nothing against reverb.
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I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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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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I have always loved Ben Folds, he’s like an idol of mine, a hero of mine.
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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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There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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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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