Finneas

“Definitely for me and my sister, wherever we are the most comfortable is where the best music's going to be made.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.”

“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.”

“If I'm writing with or for someone else, it just has to feel true and real for them. It has to feel like they're being honest. If it's for myself, it's the same thing. It has to be something I can mean when I say it.”

“Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.”

“When I started, I felt that there was this incredible amount of doubt of my ability as a producer.”

“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.”

“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.'”

“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?'”

“I have nothing against reverb.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Well, I mean there are so many producers that inspire me. I used to try to imitate production by certain people. And now I'm only interested in doing the opposite of that. I'm only interested in doing production that like no one's ever done before.”

“I'm a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.”

“Kids have tools to do what I'm doing.”

“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.”

“I think it's really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.”

“I really value just being able to go out and grab a coffee or going to a movie and not have anyone recognize me.”