Billie Eilish

Singer

2001-12-18

Billie Eilish is an American singer-songwriter known for genre-blending pop music and multiple Grammy Awards. She gained global recognition with songs including Bad Guy and has become a major contemporary pop artist.

Quotes by Billie Eilish

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.
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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 pictures.
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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 people don't. If you have that inside of you and can't get it out, what do you do?
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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.
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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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Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don't know if it's ever not somewhere.
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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.
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I feel like I might be a designer or stylist - or a director because I have always been super interested in cameras and editing.
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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 you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that's so lame.
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My whole life, I've sung and listened to music, and since the beginning, I've had iTunes and used Apple Music for streaming.
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Me and my brother get along super well. We're, like, best friends. So we'll stay up until, like, five just talking because we get along and, you know, it's cool. And he respects my opinions, and I respect his, even if we don't have the same opinions, but a lot of the time we do.
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If you write in the same way over and over again, like, in the same place with the same techniques and with the same people, you're sort of writing the same song over and over again.
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It's rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.
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People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.
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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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Nothing really scares me, to be honest.
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I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.
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Pirate was going to be my middle name, but then my uncle had a problem with it because pirates are bad.
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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.
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Lyrics are so important, but they're really underrated.
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