Finneas Quotes

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

"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."

"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 just have no interest in being at a party."

"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 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."

"I try not to shy away from specificity."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I never get tired of writing about love."

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

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

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

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

"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!'"

"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."

"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'm not an author, but as a songwriter, I'm afforded this kind of luxurious ambiguity in songs of being able to confess the secrets of my relationships with people and face basically no consequences, or ask for no approval or permission."

"I usually don't like to annoy people in asking to work with them."

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

"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 don't really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording."

"I think that, for us, the thing that no one can take away from you is that if you make something that they've never heard before, they're gonna respond to that. They may not love it, it may not be their favourite thing, but no one can take different from you."

"The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever."

"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."

"I am just fascinated by music and I want to know how to identify all the things I love about it; to me music theory is like learning another language and then being able to explain how much you love something more clearly."

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

"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."

"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."