Billie Eilish

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

“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.”

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

“Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.”

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

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

“I always want to create and do things, or draw.”

“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 love movement. I love moshing.”

“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.”

“It's really fun to put yourself into a character - into shoes you wouldn't normally be in.”

“I love to watch videos, and I've always liked to film and take pictures. I have an eye for really weird things that nobody thinks about. I used to make little movies about myself and then edit them on iMovie.”

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

“I 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.'”

“I've always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of - I just sung a lot.”

“I've always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.”

“Pirate was going to be my middle name, but then my uncle had a problem with it because pirates are bad.”

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