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I don't analyze songs because I think it will make me a

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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It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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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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So, I’ll walk around with – just an iPhone will work – but sometimes I’ll bring, like, a little mobile recorder and I’ll just, like, if hear an interesting sound, I’ll just record it. And then later, I’ll listen through them and I’ll go like, ‘I wonder how can I use that?’
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It’s always important to be checking in with people you love.
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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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You might think of Hollywood as this full-on glamorous thing and to us it was like, ‘All right, mom’s got an audition. Do you want to sit in traffic for 50 minutes and go in with her?’
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I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
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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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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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If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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I think the whole response to our art being so positive is that it rings true and it feels a unique thing and I feel that was the thing that we strive for in the beginning was to not conform to any preconceived notions of what we should be doing.
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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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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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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’m making a song with Billie, then it’s for Billie… She has to want to wear that song every day. And I think I try to do the same thing when I’m making a song for myself… I try to treat them both that way, like I’m sort of A&R-ing her and then A&R-ing myself.
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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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To me, my favorite joke on a stand-up special is when someone says something and you go, ‘Oh my God, I’ve been thinking that my whole life, I’ve just never said it to anyone else.’ Those little kinda quiet, personal observations you make that nobody else has talked about yet.
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I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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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 think if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.
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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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I just have no interest in being at a party.
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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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Imagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timothee Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s currently Timothee Chalamet.
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I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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The first time I ever heard Airborne Toxic Event, my friend was turning 11 or something. And he had a paintball birthday party where him and me and two of our other friends went out to these paintball courses and I got obliterated. I don’t think I got one hit.
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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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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’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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I have always loved Ben Folds, he's like an idol of min

I have always loved Ben Folds, he’s like an idol of mine, a hero of mine.
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Everything sounds better when Billie sings it, so the only ones I’ll keep for myself are ones that really feel just super personal to me in their content, like this is my life story and maybe not anybody else’s.
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I find that when I’m in an argument and I’m angry, I can’t even form a sentence well. You say something and then later you’re like ‘That’s not even what I meant at all!’
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Even though we’re all together making songs and I produce them, it’s so her vision. Especially when we walk out on stage every night. It’s so meticulously thought through by Billie and I admire that endlessly in her.
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I don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
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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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Billie doesn’t actually like recording sessions at all. We like making music together. She doesn’t like going to some big studio and having them pretend to be a therapist for a couple hours. So by default, we always make the good stuff together.
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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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If you can use songs as a tool, vehicle for empathy and a deeper understanding of how people are feeling and how people’s emotions work, there’s a lot of good that can come from that.
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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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I felt really lucky in that I’ve gotten to know some of my favorite artists; I get to tell them how important they are to me. But that doesn’t always make me want to work with people. I feel like if I’m going to work with somebody, it’s because I feel like I actually have something to add to them.
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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’m not a control freak in that like I boss everybody around, but like a control freak and like, I like knowing exactly what I get to do that day and having a say.
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Everybody has different taste and everyone’s favourite song is different and that’s great.
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There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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I never get tired of writing about love.
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All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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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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My feeling is that everybody starts out as an emulator. You follow their approach and that’s how learning works. The pivot is that I don’t think you’re going to break new ground unless you do something different.
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I think that’s probably the number one reason why collaboration is good. You disagree with each other about things and then what we always say is whichever one of us is more passionate about the issue is the winner because if you care about something enough to fight for it, that means it’s probably a good thing.
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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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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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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 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 remember, one time, my dad took me and Billie to a fair. I was probably 7 years old, Billie must have been 3, and she put footie pyjamas on and then put a second pair of underwear on over the pyjamas. I remember being like, ‘What is Billie wearing?!’ and my dad was like, ‘She’s happy with it. Let’s go!’
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Love has always been the most important thing to me and the thing by which my life is guided.
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Production has always been a fantasy of mine, and I got really lucky and had a sister who put a lot of faith and trust in me, and was very collaborative, and was willing to let me produce her entire album.
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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 love Griffith Park.
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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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I usually don't like to annoy people in asking to work

I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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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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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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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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In the alternate reality where I wasn’t involved at all, and I’d been like, just, sweating my way through, trying to have a music career for years? And then my sibling had one and I wasn’t involved at all? I think I’d be very tortured by it. But the fact that we’ve had one in tandem makes a lot of sense.
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