Finneas

“I'm just obsessed with music I guess.”

“I just have no interest in being at a party.”

“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?'”

“It's important to recognize when a song remains important to you.”

“Being able to hear an artist and emulate them has been a huge part of being successful as a producer and co-writer. I think it's a problem when a producer comes in to work with an artist, and you can't hear the artist as well anymore. It's very important to me to be invisible.”

“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.”

“If you're paying attention and you've been a good listener, you learn every day.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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!'”

“We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.”

“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.”

“We wrote and recorded the 'Bond' song on a tour bus in Texas.”

“I have always loved Ben Folds, he's like an idol of mine, a hero of mine.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It's always important to be checking in with people you love.”

“You know, I grew up very self-taught.”

“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.”

“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.”