Billie Eilish Quotes

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

We uploaded ‚Ocean Eyes‘ to SoundCloud, and it started getting a lot of plays pretty much immediately.

People have so much going on in their heads. I’m like, If you could write a song, you’d feel so much better!

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

Pirate was going to be my middle name, but then my uncle had a problem with it because pirates are bad.

I don’t want people at my shows to come out and say, ‚I just saw a cool show.‘ I want them to say, ‚I had fun at the show.‘ I want it to be a collaborative thing and be part of the audience and have them be part of me. I try to interact with everyone there and have them be equal to me because they are.

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

I don’t see myself as a pop artist. Like, when you hear ‚pop,‘ you’re like, ‚Oh, bubblegum, jumpy little girly stuff,‘ and I feel like, ‚Uh-uh. That’s not me.‘

Aside from singing, I’m also a dancer. I’ve been dancing since I was 8.

Sometimes it’s flattering when people copy you, but sometimes it gets to a breaking point.

I’ve always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

I don’t think a song should be put in a category.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

Clothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost.

Pretty much my whole life, I’ve been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

I have so many designs and video ideas and lyrics in my head, so I always try to be productive.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

Being an artist doesn’t just mean you have a song. That doesn’t make you an artist. The word ‚artist‘ means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists – Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West – are doing the most.

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.

In real life, I’m a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.

When I do have free time, I spend it with friends, or I spend it at home writing or making something.

Lyrics are so important, but they’re really underrated.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

I just really want to get music out and tour and go places I’ve never been, and just do more videos. I love photography and videography, and so I really want to direct videos when I can.

I’ve been in the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus since I was 8.

Getting recognized is insane. It just blows my mind. Like, someone who you don’t know at all can just be like, ‚Oh my God – are you Billie?‘

What inspires me about rap is that it’s written in an almost poetic way. I just think it’s so cool.

I grew up on the Beatles; I love Linkin Park and Green Day. I heard hip-hop for the first time at 11 and realized what I was missing.

I don’t even call them fans. I don’t like that. They’re literally just a part of my life; they’re a part of my family. I don’t think of them as on a lower level than me. I don’t think I’m anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they’re basically all of my siblings.

Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you’re working with; otherwise, you’re not gonna come out with something that’s really you.

I used to make little movies when I was younger. I’d make my friends be in them and then edit them.

I feel like I might be a designer or stylist – or a director because I have always been super interested in cameras and editing.

I really like hip-hop and rap; that’s my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.

I love movement. I love moshing.

Nothing really scares me, to be honest.

I work with my brother Finneas, and he produces all of my music in his little bedroom in our house. We actually tried renting out a studio for a month when we were producing ‚Don’t Smile at Me,‘ but it was really hard there, and we ended up just doing it at home anyway.

Writing music is just like writing a book.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

Some artists just ruin their voices because they don’t know any better.

My whole life, I’ve sung and listened to music, and since the beginning, I’ve had iTunes and used Apple Music for streaming.

I always wear the kind of stuff that makes you overheat and die.

I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now, then it is – I don’t even want to say that it’s mine, because it’s yours.

When I was four, I wrote a song about falling into a black hole.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

I’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.

I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I’ve always been like that; I don’t smile in any pictures.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

I hate the idea of genres.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don’t know if it’s ever not somewhere.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

I’m a really particular person. I want it my way.

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don’t. If you have that inside of you and can’t get it out, what do you do?

If it’s good music, it’s good music.