Finneas

“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.”

“I think if you're not trying to change things a little bit, you're not evolving.”

“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.”

“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!'”

“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.”

“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.”

“For me, I'm going to try to make my favorite song over the most popular song.”

“I try not to shy away from specificity.”

“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.”

“I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn't really like being an adolescent at all.”

“I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.”

“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.”

“I think in modern communication studies, we put a lot of emphasis on our relationships and our family relationships. Our relationships with our parents, and our siblings. I felt that there was this gap in content about communication with people who are super close to you in your peer group.”

“I love Griffith Park.”

“To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.”

“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.”

“In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe's.”

“Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.”

“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.”

“Everybody has different taste and everyone's favourite song is different and that's great.”