Top 89 Quotes & Sayings by Billie Eilish
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American singer Billie Eilish.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
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?
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 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.
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.
It's rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.
You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don't have to be in love with anyone.
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.
If I'm inspired to make a certain kind of song, I'm going to make that kind of song, no matter if it's what they know me as or think I am.
Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.
It's really fun to be on stage in front of people.
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!
I always want to create and do things, or draw.
When I write, I try to become different characters.
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.'
In real life, I'm a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.
I don't really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It's all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.
I always wanted to be a Vine star. I wasn't, thank God.
I don't think a song should be put in a category.
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.
People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe. It's a story.
Pirate was going to be my middle name, but then my uncle had a problem with it because pirates are bad.
Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won't last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don't realise that.
If I'm in a bad mood, or if I'm uncomfortable, it's probably what I'm wearing that's making me feel that way.
When I do have free time, I spend it with friends, or I spend it at home writing or making something.
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.
Clothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost.
Lyrics are so important, but they're really underrated.
If it's good music, it's good music.
I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I'm cool with the praise. I'm good.
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.
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.
It's really fun to put yourself into a character - into shoes you wouldn't normally be in.
When I was four, I wrote a song about falling into a black hole.
I love movement. I love moshing.
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 super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I'm critical of other people, too - I try not to be, though.
If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I'll die someday, and one day, they will too.
I love to watch videos, and I've always liked to film and take pictures. I have an eye for really weird things that nobody thinks about. I used to make little movies about myself and then edit them on iMovie.
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.'
I love people talking about me; I love anybody just looking at me.
I have so many designs and video ideas and lyrics in my head, so I always try to be productive.
I never thought a career as a musician was possible.
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.
There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.
People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.
I'm not going to say I'm cool, because I don't really feel that. I just don't care at all, and I guess that's what people think is cool.
I hate the idea of genres.
I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.
Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don't know if it's ever not somewhere.
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.
I'm a really artistic person, and so, with the live stuff, there's a lot that I think is really cool. Beyonce and Rihanna have all these dancers. So with the live costumes and video costumes, I'd really like to have my vision. The way that I want people to dress is very specific. I love fashion.
Nothing really scares me, to be honest.
I'm a really particular person. I want it my way.
I always wear the kind of stuff that makes you overheat and die.
I've always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.
I really love Linkin Park, and I loved Chester Bennington, and it is horrible what happened to him. I grew up listening to him because my dad would make these mixtapes with a lot of different artists - Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne, The Beatles, Sarah McLachlan, I just really loved Linkin Park, and their production is really sick.
Writing music is just like writing a book.
I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.
'Bellyache' is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren't real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don't know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.
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