I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.

I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.

I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars.

My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?

I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.

For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.

The worst pain in the world is shame. I spend a lot of time trying to not do anything bad to anyone, but you can't live your life and not hurt people.

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

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.

I had a very positive, wonderful, happy upbringing, and still, for several reasons, I really didn't enjoy being a child very much. I felt that I had no control over my life and everything seemed scarier and larger than life.

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

I love Griffith Park.

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.

Well, predominately, if I'm writing for another artist, I'm sitting there with them and we're writing it together.

You go to a truck stop and there are key chains with names on them, and there's no Finneas. There's no Billie. They're little things, but as a kid, you just feel weirdly ostracized.

I remember, one time, my dad took me and Billie to a fair. I was probably 7 years old, Billie must have been 3, and she put footie pyjamas on and then put a second pair of underwear on over the pyjamas. I remember being like, 'What is Billie wearing?!' and my dad was like, 'She's happy with it. Let's go!'

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 you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it's still best to do it in a studio.

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

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.

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.

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

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.