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.
To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.
I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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 usually don't like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
I really value just being able to go out and grab a coffee or going to a movie and not have anyone recognize me.
If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it's still best to do it in a studio.
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.
Well, predominately, if I'm writing for another artist, I'm sitting there with them and we're writing it together.
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 just have no interest in being at a party.
I love Griffith Park.
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.
For me, I'm going to try to make my favorite song over the most popular song.
Even though we're all together making songs and I produce them, it's so her vision. Especially when we walk out on stage every night. It's so meticulously thought through by Billie and I admire that endlessly in her.
I'm a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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.
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.
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.
The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
