Billie Eilish

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

— Billie Eilish

Nothing really scares me, to be honest.

— Billie Eilish

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

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I love to watch videos, and I've always liked to film and take pictures. I have an eye for really weird things…

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I just really want to get music out and tour and go places I've never been, and just do more videos. I…

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What makes a song last is real content from a mind that is thinking a little bit harder about certain things. A…

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

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I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many…

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People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like,…

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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…

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

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I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had…

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

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Getting recognized is insane. It just blows my mind. Like, someone who you don't know at all can just be like, 'Oh…

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

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I think it's really cool when artists have song titles or album names that are a really conversational sentence.

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

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

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In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you're a girl with an opinion, people just hate…

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If it's good music, it's good music.

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I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life…

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

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

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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…

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I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

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