Billie Eilish Quotes

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.

There's this whole idea that you've got the blues and you're going to write. Bullshit. When I feel really bad, all I want to do is sit in front of the TV with the remote control and check out.

When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could be argued that they exacerbate my neurosis.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It's as simple as that.

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of.

Trixie Mattel is a product of bad things that happened to me, and it's how I deal with things. It's wonderful.

But me writing sad songs doesn't mean I am a sad person.

You can't cry yourself to sleep every night because people from a distance hate you. So you gotta do with it what you can, and if that means using it as motivation, then that's what you do.

Mandy' came from grief and depression. I wanted this to be an outward volcanic expulsion of the emotion of my first film.

I'm always better when I'm not doing well, that's when I write good songs.

I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.

By the time I got to songwriting, I had been faced with a lot of troubles as a result of my own collective of trauma. I was someone who instinctively figured out that writing songs about the struggle helps you with the struggle.

I don’t have a problem baring my emotions in music. That’s one of the reasons I’m glad to have music in my life. I’m pretty resilient as far as being a human being. A lot of songs write themselves.

When I have no idea what to do with how I'm feeling, I generally make a song out of it.

I began to paint again, even though I could barely hold the brush, but knowing exactly what I wanted to paint, I began three more large canvases... of large wheat fields under cloudy skies, and it did not take a great deal to express sadness and loneliness... I believe these paintings say what words cannot.

My guitar is like my best friend. My guitar can get me through anything. If I can sit down and write an amazing song with my guitar about what's going on in life, then that's the greatest therapy for me.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat

Everyone has sadness-I just get mine out in my music so that I can laugh and joke and flirt with you!

The thing that started me painting originally was seeing Bambi when I was about nine. I was incredibly disturbed by the forest fire that killed Bambi's mother, and that distress gave me the impulse to create something, as a way of dealing with it.