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

Billie Eilish

I just really loved Linkin Park, and their production is really sick.
BILLIE EILISH

Music
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

Life Music People Song Writing
I think it’s really cool when artists have song titles or album names that are a really conversational sentence.
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Artist Conservation Cool Music
I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.
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Music Myself Piano Play Teaching Want
It’s really fun to put yourself into a character – into shoes you wouldn’t normally be in.
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Character Fun Shoes Uncomfortable Yourself
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.
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Appreciation Cool Deserve Old Praise Thinking
Don’t feel bad for wanting to keep your family safe.
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Bad Family Feeling Safe Want
What inspires me about rap is that it’s written in an almost poetic way. I just think it’s so cool.
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Cool Music Poetry Writing
I’m only good at being bad.
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Bad Funny Goodness
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

People Shoes Story Writing
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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Artist Certain Content Mind Song Thinking
I have so many designs and video ideas and lyrics in my head, so I always try to be productive.
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Design Ideas Lyrics Productive Try
Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.
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Control Feeling Powerful Smile Weakness
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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Bad Funny Humour Pirate Problem
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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Critical People Thinking Try
I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‘Runaway’ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‘That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.’
BILLIE EILISH

Music

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