Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell is an American singer and songwriter. She first gained attention in 2015 when she uploaded the song “Ocean Eyes” to SoundCloud. Her debut EP, Don’t Smile at Me (2017), became a sleeper hit, reaching the top 15 in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia. Eilish’s debut studio album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019), debuted atop the Billboard 200 and became the best-performing album of 2019 in the US. It also reached No. 1 in the UK.
The album contains six Billboard Hot 100 top 40 singles. Her accolades include five Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, two Guinness World Records, three MTV Video Music Awards, and one Brit Award. She is the youngest person and second person ever to win the four main Grammy categories – Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Album of the Year – in the same year. Eilish is the 23rd biggest artist of the digital singles era, according to RIAA, selling 37.5 million singles in the US alone.
Some of the best quotes from Billie Eilish are listed below.
- “Call me friend, but keep me closer.” – Billie Eilish
- “Clothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost.” – Billie Eilish
- “Getting 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?’” – Billie Eilish
- “I don’t belong to anyone, but everybody knows my name.” – Billie Eilish
- “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
- “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
- “I 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.” – Billie Eilish
- “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.’” – Billie Eilish
- “I don’t think a song should be put in a category.” – Billie Eilish
- “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.” – Billie Eilish
- “I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.” – Billie Eilish
- “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
- “I just wish you could feel what you say.” – Billie Eilish
- “I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.” – Billie Eilish
- “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.” – Billie Eilish
- “I lost myself again, but I remember you.” – Billie Eilish
- “I never thought a career as a musician was possible.” – Billie Eilish
- “I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.” – Billie Eilish
- “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.” – Billie Eilish
- “I’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.” – Billie Eilish
- “I’m not going to say I’m cool because I don’t really feel that. I just don’t care at all, and I guess that’s what people think is cool.” – Billie Eilish
- “I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sing a lot.” – Billie Eilish
- “I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.” – Billie Eilish
- “I’ve always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.” – Billie Eilish
- “If I love you was a promise, would you break it if you’re honest?” – Billie Eilish
- “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.” – Billie Eilish
- “If 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.” – Billie Eilish
- “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
- “Isn’t it lovely, all alone? Heart made of glass, my mind of stone.” – Billie Eilish
- “It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.” – Billie Eilish
- “It’s really fun to put yourself into a character – into shoes you wouldn’t normally be in.” – Billie Eilish
- “Lyrics are so important, but they’re really underrated.” – Billie Eilish
- “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.” – Billie Eilish
- “Nothing really scares me, to be honest.” – Billie Eilish
- “People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.” – 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!” – 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.” – Billie Eilish
- “Pretty much my whole life, I’ve been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.” – Billie Eilish
- “Sometimes it’s flattering when people copy you, but sometimes it gets to a breaking point.” – Billie Eilish
- “There are always going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.” – Billie Eilish
- “Time 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.” – Billie Eilish
- “What 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.” – Billie Eilish
- “When I write, I try to become different characters.” – Billie Eilish
- “Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realize that.” – Billie Eilish
- “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.” – Billie Eilish
- “You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.” – Billie Eilish
- “You’re italic, I’m in bold.” – Billie Eilish
