I've always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.
Billie Eilish
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.
It's rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.
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.
There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.
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.
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.
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.
I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.
It's really fun to put yourself into a character - into shoes you wouldn't normally be in.
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.
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'm a really particular person. I want it my way.
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 are terrified of me, and I want them to be.
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.
You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don't have to be in love with anyone.
I really wanted to be a model when I was little. I loved photography, and I loved being on camera. But I was short and chubby, so I couldn't. Anyway, being an artist is way more interesting than just being a model because it's about you and what you want to be. You're not being treated like a clothes hanger.
When I was four, I wrote a song about falling into a black hole.
I love people talking about me; I love anybody just looking at me.
Clothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost.
Nothing really scares me, to be honest.
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.
Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.
I always want to create and do things, or draw.
Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don't know if it's ever not somewhere.
My brother had written 'Ocean Eyes,' and we recorded it, basing all of the production around contemporary and lyrical dance. I think of most songs that way - if you can't dance to a song, it's not a song.
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.
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.
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.
If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I'll die someday, and one day, they will too.
I've been in the Los Angeles Children's Chorus since I was 8.
I hate the idea of genres.
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 always wanted to be a Vine star. I wasn't, thank God.
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 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.
All of the Vines that were acted & setup & had nice cameras, those weren't the good Vines. The good Vines were, like, a random little kid in the middle of a forest, like, yelling.
Lyrics are so important, but they're really underrated.
I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.
I've always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.
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.
If it's good music, it's good music.
I always wear the kind of stuff that makes you overheat and die.
Writing music is just like writing a book.
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 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.
