Billie Eilish
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.Collection: Amazing
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.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Women
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.Collection: Courage
I think it's really cool when artists have song titles or album names that are a really conversational sentence.Collection: Cool
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.Collection: 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.Collection: Cool
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.Collection: Smile
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.Collection: Smile
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.Collection: Cool
If it's good music, it's good music.Collection: Music
In real life, I'm a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.Collection: Smile
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.Collection: Dad
When I do have free time, I spend it with friends, or I spend it at home writing or making something.Collection: Home
I've always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.
Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won't last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don't realise that.
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 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?
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.
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.
It's rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.
Lyrics are so important, but they're really underrated.
There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.
Nothing really scares me, to be honest.
It's really fun to put yourself into a character - into shoes you wouldn't normally be in.
I hate the idea of genres.
I never thought a career as a musician was possible.
I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.
When I was four, I wrote a song about falling into a black hole.
Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.
I'm a really particular person. I want it my way.
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 wear the kind of stuff that makes you overheat and die.
We uploaded 'Ocean Eyes' to SoundCloud, and it started getting a lot of plays pretty much immediately.
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.
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.
I used to make little movies when I was younger. I'd make my friends be in them and then edit them.
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!
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've always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.
Pirate was going to be my middle name, but then my uncle had a problem with it because pirates are bad.
I've been in the Los Angeles Children's Chorus since I was 8.
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 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 always want to create and do things, or draw.
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 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'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.