Quotes from Billie Eilish

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.

When I do have free time, I spend it with friends, or I spend it at home writing or making something.

Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you're working with; otherwise, you're not gonna come out with something that's really you.

Pretty much my whole life, I've been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

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.

Writing music is just like writing a book.

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.

What inspires me about rap is that it's written in an almost poetic way. I just think it's so cool.

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

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, 'What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?' I get what you're saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

I used to write random little stupid things when I was five, but then the first song I really wrote was one called 'Fingers Crossed,' which is on SoundCloud.

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.

Aside from singing, I'm also a dancer. I've been dancing since I was 8.

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.

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

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 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 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!

Sometimes it's flattering when people copy you, but sometimes it gets to a breaking point.

Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don't know if it's ever not somewhere.

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

I don't think a song should be put in a category.

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.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.