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I love Griffith Park.
You know, I grew up very self-taught.
Kids have tools to do what I'm doing.
I try not to shy away from specificity.
I just have no interest in being at a party.
I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
There's always a better word than a swear word.
Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
It's always important to be checking in with people you love.
We wrote and recorded the 'Bond' song on a tour bus in Texas.
I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
When I wrote 'When the Party's Over,' it had a universal quality.
I usually don't like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
It's important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
I'm a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
I have always loved Ben Folds, he's like an idol of mine, a hero of mine.
I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
If you're paying attention and you've been a good listener, you learn every day.
I think if you're not trying to change things a little bit, you're not evolving.
I think we're always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
I think it's really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.
In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe's.
I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn't really like being an adolescent at all.
The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by 'The Luckiest' by Ben Folds.
I've learned a lot from my mom and my dad. I learn a lot every time I watch Billie perform.
Love has always been the most important thing to me and the thing by which my life is guided.
I don't really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
Imagine if somebody was like, 'Who's the next Timothee Chalamet?' It's like, he's currently Timothee Chalamet.
I don't analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.
I really value just being able to go out and grab a coffee or going to a movie and not have anyone recognize me.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
People were like, 'he's collaborating with Taylor Swift' and I was like, 'I am?' I think she's wonderful. Her songwriting has inspired me for years.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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!'
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.'