“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.”
Billie Eilish
PinI’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.PinWhat makes a song last is real content from a mind that is thinking a little bit harder about certain things. A lot of artists don’t really think that hard.PinI 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.PinI hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I’ve always been like that; I don’t smile in any pictures.PinTime 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.PinThere are always going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.PinIf 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.PinWords are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realize that.PinI 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.
12 Billie Eilish Quotes on Music and Songwriting
“I just really want to get music out and tour and go places I’ve never been, and just do more videos. I love photography and videography, and so I really want to direct videos when I can.”
Billie Eilish
PinIf 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.PinI 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.PinYou can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.PinWhen I write, I try to become different characters.PinPretty much my whole life, I’ve been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.PinI’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sing a lot.PinWriting 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.PinIf 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.PinLyrics are so important, but they’re really underrated.PinPeople 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.PinI play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.
9 Wise Billie Eilish Quotes to Inspire Success
“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.”
Billie Eilish
PinI’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.PinWhen I do have free time, I spend it with friends, or I spend it at home writing or making something.PinI’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!PinI like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.PinIt’s really fun to put yourself into a character – into shoes you wouldn’t normally be in.PinI’ve always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.PinNever been the type to let someone see right through.PinI 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.
11 Billie Eilish Quotes About Life That Will Make You Think
“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?”
Billie Eilish
PinIt’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.PinPeople are terrified of me, and I want them to be.PinCalling women slut is out of date. Shaming people for wearing what they want is out of date.PinSometimes it’s flattering when people copy you, but sometimes it gets to a breaking point.PinSexism is everywhere, bro. I don’t know if it’s ever not somewhere.PinYou can feel so unbelievably lost and horrible and like you are nothing, and you are invisible for no reason at all, which is almost worst than having a reason.PinYou’re italic, I’m in bold.PinIsn’t it lovely, all alone? Heart made of glass, my mind of stone – Lovely.PinGetting recognized is insane. It just blows my mind. Like, someone who you don’t know at all can just be like, ‘Oh my God – are you Billie?’PinI don’t see myself as a pop artist. Like, when you hear ‘pop,’ you’re like, ‘Oh, bubblegum, jumpy little girly stuff,’ and I feel like, ‘Uh-uh. That’s not me.’
3 Billie Eilish Quotes About Love
PinIf I love you was a promise, would you break it if you’re honest?PinOnce we’ve both said our goodbyes, let’s just let it go, let me let you go.PinI lost myself again, but I remember you.
4 Short Billie Eilish Quotes (INSPIRATIONAL)
PinI want to stay happy. It’s a big goal for me.PinDon’t be so sad. It’s a waste of time.PinI laugh along like nothing’s wrong.PinI don’t belong to anyone, but everybody knows my name.
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