“I don’t want to be in the pop world. I don’t want to be in the alternative world, or the hip hop world, or the R&B world or whatever, you know? I want it to be…Billie Eilish kind of music. The other kind.”
How Billie Eilish Creates
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“The most important decision we make is the market that we choose to serve.”
10 Writing Habits Worth Developing
“Keep your reading of contemporaries in proportion—you do not want a steady diet of contemporary literature. You already belong to your time.”
How Craving Attention Makes You Less Creative
“If your creativity is driven by a desire to get attention, you’re never going to be creatively fulfilled.”
5 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.” — Billie Eilish
If You’re Struggling With Social Media, Just Do The Opposite Of What Celebrities Do
Just do the opposite of what they do.
How To Find Yourself After You Lose Your Job
“The end of a job doesn’t mean, shouldn’t be, and isn’t the end of your life.”
How To Get An Audience To Care About Your Work
“The world is so crazy busy, there’s so much going on, there are so many distractions…what is going to make somebody who has a few precious spare minutes of their day seek out your music and spend time with it?”
If You’re Busy, You’re Doing Something Wrong
“If your goal is to build a remarkable life, then busyness and exhaustion should be your enemy.”
How To Overcome Writer’s Block In Minutes
“I’ll bet it took him less than a minute to realize he had something he’d rather write than ‘I have nothing I want to say’ over and over.”