Biography

Has synesthesia, which causes her to see music as colors. She uses this condition to her advantage, as it has a great influence on the style of her music videos.

Became the youngest artist in history to write and perform a James Bond theme, which she did for No Time to Die (2021).

She began singing at a young age and began writing songs at age 11, taking after her elder brother Finneas O'Connell, who was already writing, performing, and producing his own songs with his band.

Since 2017, she does the "same interview" every year on October 18th, two months before her birthday, with Vanity Fair magazine.

Billie was named after her maternal grandfather, Bill Baird who died before she was born. Her middle name, Eilish is the Irish form of Elizabeth. Pirate came from Finneas because he really wanted her to be named that, Baird is her mother's maiden name and O'Connell is her paternal family surname. Originally, she was going to be named Eilish Pirate O'Connell.

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

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

Me and my brother get along super well. We're, like, best friends. So we'll stay up until, like, five just talking because we get along and, you know, it's cool. And he respects my opinions, and I respect his, even if we don't have the same opinions, but a lot of the time we do.

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