Billie Eilish Quotes

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.

Billie Eilish

• Music
• Mind
• Listening
• Courage

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• To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.

  

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• Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.

  

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• I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because no one - including me - understands my mind creatively. I haven't really been formally introduced to my gift yet. I feel like I'm still on the runway.

  

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• I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.

  

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• I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

  

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• I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.

  

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• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

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• I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.

  

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• I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.

  

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• I never really did any disco dancing.

  

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• I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

  

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• My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.

  

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• People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

  

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• Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.

  

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• I think Barack Obama was born into a home not just to a white woman and white grandparents, but a white woman and white grandparents who shockingly told him it was okay that he was black and that he should not be ashamed of it and that he should, in fact, be proud of it.

  

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• YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been added in almost every conceivable category that there are no more free passes on just getting there first. I think there are greater expectations for audience participation, the kind of participation that makes a real impact in a show's community.

  

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• Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.

  

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• Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

  

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• Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

  

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• Abjure all accretions and turn off the lights. Put on some music - Leonard Cohen, say, perhaps his 'Various Positions' - and let your mind cool down. Soon you'll forget there's a word called 'stress.'

  

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• I think that sports, particularly football, gave me an opportunity to be out front, to be a leader, which helped me later on, when I got into politics.

  

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• I feel like when you perform in a period drama, it's so easy to transform yourself into someone else because the costumes are so different.

  

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• 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.

  

  Billie Eilish
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Listening