“The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.”

It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.

I was on a TV show called ‘Glee.’ I mean, I was on the real tail end of that show; it was already way past its peak. But still, for me aged 17 landing something like that was a big deal.

I’m not a control freak in that like I boss everybody around, but like a control freak and like, I like knowing exactly what I get to do that day and having a say.

I don’t analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.

I’ve learned a lot from my mom and my dad. I learn a lot every time I watch Billie perform.

A lot of the time, in pop music especially, there’s reverb. And the reason is that reverb makes vocals sound better 99% of the time. It makes the notes ring out.

Definitely for me and my sister, wherever we are the most comfortable is where the best music’s going to be made.

I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.

To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.

I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.

I’m just obsessed with music I guess.

I feel like a lot of music producers have, like, the same toolbox. And I think, like, to me, as a producer, like, I want something to set my stuff apart.

Obviously I’m very grateful ‘Bad Guy’ is doing so well – it’s shocking and surprising and gratifying – but I do think it’s important to try to make the next song that people are gonna be excited about.

People don’t come to see a Billie Eilish show to come to see me. They come to see her. So I just try not to screw up too much on my instruments.

When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.

I had a very positive, wonderful, happy upbringing, and still, for several reasons, I really didn’t enjoy being a child very much. I felt that I had no control over my life and everything seemed scarier and larger than life.

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

Forever dreaming of a faraway place, where the sun melts my sorrows and blows kisses on my face.

I search but never find, hurt but never cry I work and forever try but I’m cursed, so never mind.

Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.

The Love in your eyes will forever hold a glimpse of me.

Speak and live in simple sentences. Bring closure- put a period to- those experiences that you don’t want to carry on forever and ever. Use commas in those places where you’re still growing and use exclamation points at the end of every lesson.

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

I decided I wasn’t going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.