92 True Billie Eilish Quotes To Get Anything You Want

She’s the youngest artist ever to win all four main categories at the Grammy Awards, a feat effortlessly achieved in 2020. With deeply poetic lyrics and uber cool vibes, Billie Eilish was always destined to have an exceptional music career. And it’s only the beginning.

Billie Eilish was born in 2001 in California and is an American singer and songwriter. The artist was grew up with a family of musicians and never planned on becoming a singer. Despite this, she joined a choir at the age of 8 and began writing songs three years later.

Her debut single Ocean Eyes saw Eilish rise to fame from the initial upload to SoundCloud in 2015. The song was written and produced by her brother Finneas O’Connell and was subsequently released by the Interscope Records subsidiary Darkroom. In 2017, she released her debut EP, Don’t Smile at Me which reached the top 15 in the US, UK, Canada and Australia.

Eilish released her debut studio album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? in 2019. It debuted atop the US Billboard 200, reached number one in the UK and became one of the best-selling albums of 2019. She achieved her first number one on the Billboard 100 with the albums single Bad Guy. Eilish also reached number one again in the UK with No Time to Die, the theme song for the James Bond film.

The artist continues to reach the top 10 in the US and UK, with singles Everything I Wanted, My Future, Therefore I Am and Your Power. She has received seven Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, two Guinness World Records, three MTV Video Music Awards and two Brit Awards. Adding to her fame is her unique fashion sense which embraces the weird with baggy clothes and tracksuits.

She’s only young, but Billie Eilish has demonstrated her old soul with great pearls of wisdom we can all enjoy and relate to. No doubt she’s got what she wants and is more than willing to dish out the motivation others need to do the same for themselves.  

1. People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

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2. Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realize that.

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3. I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

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4. 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.

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5. Never been the type to let someone see right through.

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

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7. I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

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8. If 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. 

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9. 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?

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10. Wherever you are in life, make happiness a priority.

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11. Isn’t it lovely, all alone? Heart made of glass, my mind of stone – Lovely.

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12. People have so much going on in their heads. I’m like, If you could write a song, you’d feel so much better!

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13. All the good girls go to hell. 

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14. There are always going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

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15. You 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. 

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16. You got your finger on the trigger, but your trigger finger’s mine.

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17. Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realize that.

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18. Maybe we should just try to tell ourselves a good lie.

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19. It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

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20. I laugh along like nothing’s wrong.

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21. Call me friend, but keep me closer.

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22. I just wish you could feel what you say.

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23. Sometimes it’s flattering when people copy you, but sometimes it gets to a breaking point.

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24. 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.

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25. 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.

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26. 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.

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27. I want to stay happy. It’s a big goal for me. 

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28. 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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29. I would like things to be normal again. But I’m grateful for what it’s given me. 

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30. Lyrics are so important, but they’re really underrated.

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31. I’m supposed to be unhappy without someone. But aren’t I someone?

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32. 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.

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33. Once we’ve both said our goodbyes, let’s just let it go, let me let you go.

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34. Calling women slut is out of date. Shaming people for wearing what they want is out of date. 

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35. If I love you was a promise, would you break it if you’re honest?

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36. Your silence is my favourite sound.

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37. 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?

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38. I’m not okay, I feel so scattered, don’t say I’m all that matters.

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

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40. Make the same mistakes, blame circumstance.

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41. 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.

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42. I’ll never let you go, five words you’ll never say.

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43. You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

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44. Wanna be lonely so show me the way home I can’t lose another life.

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45. 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.

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46. Get my pretty name out of your mouth. 

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47. I lost myself again, but I remember you.

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48. If you need me, wanna see me better hurry ’cause I’m leavin’ soon.

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49. I don’t belong to anyone, but everybody knows my name.

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50. I’m not okay, I feel so scattered, don’t say I’m all that matters.

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51. I don’t think a song should be put in a category.

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52. Bruises on both my knees for you.

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53. 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.

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54. I like it when you take control, even if you know that you don’t own me.

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55. 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.

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56. The games you played were never fun. You’d say you’d stay, but then you’d run.

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57. 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.

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58. If teardrops could be bottled, there’d be swimming pools filled by models. 

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59. When I write, I try to become different characters.

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60. I know you don’t care, but can you listen?

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61. You’re italic, I’m in bold.

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62. I’m so selfish but you make me feel helpless.

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63. Sometimes it’s flattering when people copy you, but sometimes it gets to a breaking point.

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64. Go ahead and watch my heart burn. With the fire that you started in me. 

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65. It’s really fun to put yourself into a character – into shoes you wouldn’t normally be in.

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66. I want to steal your soul. And hide you in my treasure chest. 

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67. Don’t you know I’m no good for you?

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68. 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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69. I’ll only hurt you if you let me.

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70. Call me friend but keep me closer. 

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71. Nothing really scares me, to be honest.

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72. You are my strange addiction.

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73. I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

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74. Standing there, killing time, can’t commit to anything but a crime.

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75. 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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76. The way I’m drinkin’ you down like I wanna drown, like I wanna end me.

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77. 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.

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78. Tell me love is endless, don’t be so pretentious.

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79. Is there a reason we’re not through? Is there a twelve step just for you?

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80. 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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81. I can’t afford to love someone who isn’t dying by mistake.

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82. lothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost.

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83. We fall apart as it gets dark, I’m in your arms in Central Park.

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84. Look at you needing me, you know I’m not your friend without some greenery” – all good girls to hell.

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85. 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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86. Please don’t try to kiss me on the sidewalk.

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87. 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.

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88. The friends I’ve had to bury, they keep me up at night.

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89. Too shy to say. But I hope you stay. 

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90. I can’t tell you how much I wish I didn’t wanna stay.

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91. I don’t see what she sees but maybe it’s ’cause I’m wearing your cologne.

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92. For the debt I owe, gotta sell my soul.

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