Billie Eilish Quotes

Lyrics are so important, but they're really underrated.

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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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  • Women
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• It's rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

  

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  • Value

• Clothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost.

  

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  • Fashion

• 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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  • Uncle
  • Pirate

• 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.

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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• I'm pretty sure I don't have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They're all either about, like, 'I hate you,' or 'You make me hate me.'

  

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  • Hate

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

  

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  • Writing
  • Home

• Nothing really scares me, to be honest.

  

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• I really like hip-hop and rap; that's my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.

  

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  • Rap

• I'm super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I'm critical of other people, too - I try not to be, though.

  

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  • People
  • Good

• 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.

  

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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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• 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.'

  

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• I've always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.

  

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• I'm a really particular person. I want it my way.

  

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• 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.

  

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  • Weird

• 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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  • Small
  • Hate
  • Smile

• I think it's really cool when artists have song titles or album names that are a really conversational sentence.

  

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  • Song
  • Cool

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

  

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  • Life
  • Writing
  • Pretty

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

  

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  • Control
  • Powerful

• 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.

  

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  • Random

• Lyrics are so important, but they're really underrated.

  

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