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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 hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I've always been like that; I don't smile in any pictures. "

Billie Eilish

Smiling

Feel

" 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. "

" Being an artist doesn't just mean you have a song. That doesn't make you an artist. The word 'artist' means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists - Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West - are doing the most. "

" Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don't know if it's ever not somewhere. "

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

" In real life, I'm a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh. "

" Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won't last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don't realise that. "

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

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

Billie Eilish

Want

People

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

" All of the Vines that were acted & setup & had nice cameras, those weren't the good Vines. The good Vines were, like, a random little kid in the middle of a forest, like, yelling. "

Billie Eilish

Forest

Kid

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

" I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I'm cool with the praise. I'm good. "

" 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. "

" I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, 'What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?' I get what you're saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel. "

" I love people talking about me; I love anybody just looking at me. "

" 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. "

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

" I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends. "