Billie Eilish reveals how therapy helps her songwriting

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Billie Eilish has revealed how therapy helps her creative process.

The ‘Bad Guy’ hitmaker sees a therapist “once a week”, and she has encouraged everyone to do the same as she discussed the benefits of opening up to someone.

Speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, she said: “I genuinely believe that everyone, every human on earth should go to therapy, whether you feel this or that about your life, if you’re happy or anything.

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“Anyone should go, even if they think their life is just amazing and perfect, and nothing’s wrong. Every single person should go.

“And I think it helps my creative process, because it makes me not word vomit, and it makes me not have everything up here.”

The 19-year-old star – who has been working on her highly anticipated second album ‘Happier Than Ever’ – explained that conversations in therapy have inspired her lyrics.

She added: “It makes me talk through things, and then I think about them constantly. I talk through things in therapy that I don’t even think about in my life.

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“And then over the week I’m like thinking about, ‘Wow, that thing we talked about in therapy, I should write about that. That’s really interesting.’

“And it’s really helpful, it brings it out of you and it’s really necessary.”

Billie also noted that she went through a lot of “self-reflection” on the new album.

She said: “There was so much self-reflection that I was doing.

“I was realising things about my life that I had never even processed, and realised that I had never processed.

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“And the same with things that I witnessed around me and saw happen. And just talking through it and getting it out of me, and then you know, making it sound good.”

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