Eilish: “We’re never going to be in this moment again. Never. So why don’t we enjoy this moment right now, right here? Okay?”

Eilish: "I'm really different from a lot of people, and I kind of try to be. I don't like to follow the rules at all. If somebody tells me to do something, I'll always do the complete opposite of what they tell me to do. If somebody starts wearing something a certain way, I'll wear the complete opposite of that. I've always worn what I wanted to and always said what I wanted to say. I'm super, super out there. I try to dress this much above crazy. I like to be remembered, so I like to look memorable."

Eilish: “If I want something, it’s going to happen.”

Eilish: “I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.”

Eilish: "I think I've proved to people that I'm more important than they think. If I'm sitting there, if I tell you something, you're not going to not listen to me. I don't put up with that stuff. I've made my point to people that I have things to say and I'm going to say them, and if they don't want me to say anything, then I'll leave. I'm kind of intimidating, so people will listen up. I'm kind of scary. A lot of people are just terrified of me. I have a resting b*tch face."

Eilish: “It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.”

Eilish: “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.”

Eilish: “I have an eye for really weird things that nobody thinks about. I used to make little movies about myself and then edit them on iMovie.”

Eilish: “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.”

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.”

Eilish: “Young women, we’re expected to know and do everything, and be everyone’s mom when we’re like, 15.”

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

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.”

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.”

Eilish: “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."

Eilish: “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.”

Eilish: “Even permanent things can be undone.”

Eilish: “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.”

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?”

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.’”"

Eilish: “There’s all these people who are incredibly vulnerable and would honestly do anything you say. That’s a crazy feeling. Nobody should be given the power that we’re [celebs] given.”

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.”

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?”

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.”

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

[On the answer to the question, 'when we all fall asleep, where do we go?']

Eilish: "My little dumbass likes to answer the questions that don't have an answer."

Eilish: "I feel like everything in life has some sort of answer, some sort of reason"

Eilish: "You could describe it in a way - you could be like; 'oh well when we fall asleep it's, our body paralyzes, then our brain goes into this like other world, and it's our brain stems doing this and that' like you can give me an answer but it's not gonna tell me why its that way. And that's the same with like; 'why is there a sun?' I don't know. Why do we need water to stay alive?"

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

Eilish: “I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.”

Eilish: “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.”

Eilish: "I think I've proved to people that I'm more important than they think. If I'm sitting there, if I tell you something, you're not going to not listen to me. I don't put up with that stuff. I've made my point to people that I have things to say and I'm going to say them, and if they don't want me to say anything, then I'll leave. I'm kind of intimidating, so people will listen up. I'm kind of scary. A lot of people are just terrified of me. I have a resting bitch face."

Eilish: “I’m always mad at some sh*t. Incompetence. People being dumb. Me being dumb mainly. I get mad at myself a lot. I’m really hard on myself but I also love myself but I hate myself but that’s not important.”

Eilish: “I’m a really particular person. I want it my way.”

Eilish: "I like the number 7. Yeah, the number also is yellow, and like that little section is yellow because of my stupid ass synesthesia, I don't know."

Eilish: “If somebody tells me to do something, I'll always do the complete opposite of what they tell me to do. If somebody starts wearing something a certain way, I'll wear the complete opposite of that. I've always worn what I wanted to and always said what I wanted to say. I'm super, super out there. I try to dress this much above crazy. I like to be remembered, so I like to look memorable.”

Eilish: “If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.”

Eilish: “It’s really about not wishing away the present and the past and wishing you were in the future, but just being hopeful and content with the idea of change.”

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

Eilish: “I just have always loved cameras, and I loved being on camera, and I’ve always loved watching videos of myself, since I was a little kid. I remember being 10 and being like, ‘Mom, can I watch home movies?’”

Eilish: “I’m a really artistic person, and so, with the live stuff, there’s a lot that I think is really cool. Beyonce and Rihanna have all these dancers. So with the live costumes and video costumes, I’d really like to have my vision. The way that I want people to dress is very specific. I love fashion.”

Eilish: “Clothing and fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost.”

Eilish: “I was scared of Eminem my whole life. Always - dude, terrified. That dude scared the f*ck out of me, oh my god.”

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!”

Eilish: “Some artists just ruin their voices because they don’t know any better.”

Eilish: "We all know the feeling of seeing yourself and being like, What is going on with me, I’m acting insane. When you’re excited about something, you forget boundaries and you forget what’s polite and what’s kind of not polite."

Eilish: “I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I’m good at hiding everything.”

Eilish: “People are their own worst enemy, ya know. And I’m my own worst enemy.”

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.”

Eilish: "I love hate, I read hate comments more than I read nice comments."

Eilish: “I never want to push away somebody that’s showing me only love. And even if it’s coming from a place of crazy love, I don’t ever want to push that too far away.”

Eilish: “Nothing really scares me, to be honest.”

Eilish: “I just really want to get music out and tour and go places I’ve never been, and just do more videos. I love photography and videography, and so I really want to direct videos when I can.”

Eilish: “I always wear the kind of stuff that makes you overheat and die.”

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.”

Eilish: “Do you know me? Really know me? You have opinions about my opinions, about my music, about my clothes, about my body.”

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.”

Eilish: “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.’”

Eilish: “When I write, I try to become different characters.“

Eilish: “I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.”

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.”

Eilish: “People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.”

Eilish: “Sometimes it’s flattering when people copy you, but sometimes it gets to a breaking point.”

Eilish: “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.”

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.”

Eilish: “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.”

Eilish: “I never thought a career as a musician was possible.”

Eilish: “I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!”

Eilish: “There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.”

Eilish: “I’m a really artistic person, and so, with the live stuff, there’s a lot that I think is really cool. Beyonce and Rihanna have all these dancers. So with the live costumes and video costumes, I’d really like to have my vision. The way that I want people to dress is very specific. I love fashion.”

Eilish: “I used to write random little stupid things when I was five, but then the first song I really wrote was one called ‘Fingers Crossed,’ which is on SoundCloud.”

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."

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.”

Eilish: “Don’t make me not a role model because you’re turned on by me.”