I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
FINNEASI’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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I came to NAMM once and saw this guitar that self-tuned, and I thought, ‘Wow, this is the future!’ And I’ve never seen it again.
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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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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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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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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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I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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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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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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If you’re thinking about all the possibilities of your life, there are extreme negatives, which you hope don’t happen, and extreme positives, which you just aren’t willing to think about because you think you’ll jinx it.
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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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The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
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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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If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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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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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 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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In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe’s.
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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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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
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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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