I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
FINNEASI’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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I feel like a lot of music producers have, like, the same toolbox. And I think, like, to me, as a producer, like, I want something to set my stuff apart.
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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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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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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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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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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 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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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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You know, that’s kind of always been our philosophy: not letting the place that we are get in the way of making great music.
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I was on a TV show called ‘Glee.’ I mean, I was on the real tail end of that show; it was already way past its peak. But still, for me aged 17 landing something like that was a big deal.
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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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In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe’s.
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I stopped telling people what lyrics meant to them when I saw them tattoo it on them, because it clearly meant much more to them than it ever did to me.
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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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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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To be honest, I’ve found so many more friends in the music industry than people I disagree with. I certainly haven’t been made to feel like an outsider.
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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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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 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 think it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.
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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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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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I just have no interest in being at a party.
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