[box thuds]
[stand clicks]
[stand scratches]
[tone beeps]
- It's a pretty crunchy shirt.
- [Man 1] So we can go back to the two guys
and then we'll do the hold.
[Velcro snaps]
- [Man 2] Stand by, guys, here.
- [Man 1] Kevin holding for the sound.
- [Interviewer] All right, are you ready to go for one?
- Uh-huh.
- [Interviewer] Cool. Let's go.
[dramatic music]
[tone beeps]
- [Woman] "Billie Eilish answers
increasingly personal questions
as the camera moves closer to her face."
[clapboard taps]
- [Interviewer] All right.
[man mumbling]
[tone beeps]
- [Woman] "Identity." [clapboard taps]
- [Interviewer] How have you been lately?
- I've been good.
[soft music]
Getting
not enough sleep.
- [Interviewer] Any habits that you're trying to break?
- Ooh.
Geez.
Not really.
I think honestly, I'm sleeping, like going to sleep late.
Like I can't stop and I would like to,
so, there's that, definitely.
- [Interviewer] How'd you celebrate your 18th birthday?
- I had a party back when it was legal.
It was the best,
like probably one of the best nights of my life.
We had a bounce house. [chuckles]
It was good. I went to Taco Bell.
It was a good night.
- [Interviewer] Now that you have your driver's license,
and you can vote,
are there other everyday life goals you have?
- That I haven't achieved yet?
Tons.
I don't know.
I want to drive to like Costco and like,
go get something from Costco alone.
I don't know.
Just like grown-up [bleeps] [chuckles].
Go to Home Depot some, I don't know.
- [Interviewer] What are you afraid of?
[Billie sighs]
- My loved ones' well-being,
health,
anything that has to do with that subject.
- [Interviewer] Where do you go to find peace?
- Take a bath.
I drive.
I go 120 on the freeway. [laughs]
It's a specific kind of peace, but it is a kind of peace.
Don't try it at home.
- [Interviewer] What do you hope the world will look like
when you're 80?
- Girl, I'm not gonna live till 80!
None of us are!
Are you kidding me?
We have like 10 years left.
If I were to live till 80,
I hope, I mean, the world will have to look like this
if I even lived till 80, because I wouldn't have otherwise
but [sighs] we got to help the environment.
That's what I hope.
I hope that the world doesn't say it's over for you,
but it's just, and then kill us all.
I hope that people are more understanding.
I hope that people will just shut the [bleeps] up sometimes.
That's what I hope.
- [Interviewer] When in your life
have you felt the most trapped?
[Billie chuckles]
- When I was in a
relationship that was
very emotionally abusive.
[tone beeps]
Damn, this is genius.
My face getting redder and redder.
Are you mad at me for any of that, guys?
- [Mom] I'm worried about the 120 miles an hour.
[man laughs] - Oh! [sputters]
[tone beeps]
- [Woman] "Fame." [clapboard taps]
- [Interviewer] What are three words
you would use to describe fame?
- Overwhelming.
[gentle music]
Surreal.
And
shocking.
- [Interviewer] What's the best part about being famous?
- [sighs] I would say...
I think just...
You know,
being able to say something
and be heard, like,
yeah, just having an outlet, having a voice and a platform
is amazing and rare.
And...
[Billie sighs]
I don't know, there's a lot of good things though
but I would say that that is a very important one.
And I think I try to take that in as much as possible.
- [Interviewer] What's the worst thing about being famous?
- No privacy
ever again,
in any way at all. [chuckles]
- [Interviewer] Do you ever get the chance
to forget you're a celebrity?
- Sometimes when, yeah!
Sometimes I think when I'm at my parents' house,
when I'm, you know, scootering around, biking around,
or like in the ocean weirdly,
it's kind of a random one, but there's little things.
Definitely.
- [Interviewer] What do you hate the most
about the internet?
- Oh, girl.
I hate a lot of things with the internet.
I love the internet too, but God, what do I hate the most?
I think the...
I just think everybody believing everything they see,
just because it's written down somewhere, you know.
It could be the biggest lie ever,
and it's like, you just believe it if it's on the internet,
it's weird.
- [Interviewer] When in your career
did you feel the most vulnerable?
- The week after the Grammys.
- [Interviewer] Why?
- Why? [laughs]
Well, because I had just lived through
an unbelievable experience and I was filled with joy
and excitement and, you know, shock and disbelief,
and you know, getting compliments left and right.
And at the same time,
the entire internet was telling me I didn't deserve it.
So it was a weird week.
It was very...
It was weird, but who got the Grammys?
Me.
- [Interviewer] What one thing would you tell someone
who wishes they were you?
- Don't wish you were me.
It's not, it's not what you think.
And also, you don't want to be anyone but yourself.
I cannot stress it enough.
We, you know...
You want to be you.
You have your life and that's such a blessing
to have your own life, you know.
Know yourself, and you know...
And you can also make your life what you want it to be.
And if you were somebody else,
you wouldn't be able to do that.
You know?
I mean, obviously,
we can't really be anyone else practically
but even if we could, I think we're better off as ourselves.
[tone beeps]
I don't know how to do this anymore.
[man laughs]
[Billie chuckles]
I don't know what the [bleeps] I'm supposed to say.
[tone beeps]
- [Woman] "Family." [clapboard taps]
- [Interviewer] So how's your family?
[soft music] - Family is good,
happy, and healthy.
- [Interviewer] How do you and your family
spend quality time together?
- We have some weekly dinners.
We watch movies.
We make fun of people, quality time. [chuckles]
- [Interviewer] And what makes that quality time to you?
- I think it's just important to keep that up.
Like, it's so easy to get lost in your life and your work
that you forget to make time
for the things you don't even think about
when you're in it, you know?
So, just any time with them, it's quality time to me.
- [Interviewer] We heard you rescued a dog this year.
Is that right?
- Yes.
- [Interviewer] How's that going?
- It's going good.
His name is Shark.
He's a little pit bull.
He's very goofy looking.
He's very stinky. [chuckles]
I don't know why, as much as I wash him, he just smells.
Can't do anything about it. [chuckles]
- [Interviewer] What does home mean to you?
- Home means my childhood home
in LA.
Like that's all, like, I honestly, that's all I think of.
I don't think of anything else as home.
That house with my family, like on Christmas,
that's like what home sounds like to me. [chuckles]
- [Interviewer] What is the most significant way
that your parents influenced you as an artist?
- Well, we had a rule growing up
that was kind of a like household respected thing
of just no matter what time it was,
you know, no matter how old we were,
if we were creating, writing music,
playing piano, playing guitar, or any instrument at all,
we could stay up as long as we were doing that,
because it wasn't...
'Cause, you know, you only have creativity
when it comes to you.
And sometimes it's really random.
Sometimes it's in the middle of the night.
Sometimes it's in the middle of the day, wherever,
wherever, whenever, you know, with who, whatever.
So we had a rule that was just like,
no one is gonna push that away from you.
You get to be creative when you feel creative,
which is I think really important for us.
- [Interviewer] What about Finneas?
How did he influence you?
- Well, Finneas influences me all the time.
I mean, I wanted to do everything he was doing growing up.
I wanted to be friends with the people he was friends with.
I wanted to wear what he was wearing
and do what he was doing.
And so, kind of everything.
I think that's kind of how it is
when you're a younger sibling.
And up until a certain age, and then I was like,
[bleeps] that, I'm not doing that.
I'm doing my own [bleeps]. [chuckles]
- [Interviewer] When do you feel the most connected
to your family?
- It comes in waves.
It's kind of random.
I mean, it's, you don't even,
I feel like I don't even realize that it's happening
until afterwards, but kind of all the time.
I mean, I love my family and I'm always with them,
and [sighs], you know, they come on tour with me.
So,
it's all the time.
It's really all the time.
And you know, it's random.
Again, it's like, sometimes it's late at night
when I'm like randomly have a feel,
a real moment of,
whatever.
I don't know, it's all the time.
- [Interviewer] When do you feel the most distant from them?
- [sighs] I think when, you know, we don't see eye to eye
or they can't understand what I'm talking about
or when I can't understand what they're talking about,
whether it's just that I don't, like, I can't
I've never experienced it or they've never experienced it,
or it's just
a disagreement.
But then again, like with all relationships,
you have days or weeks or months where things are off,
you know, they're just not the same
as they would be normally.
And then you have days where things are amazing.
It's just how it is with any relationship in the world.
You got good days, and you got weird days,
and you got bad days, and you got average days.
It's just how it is.
And that's fine with me.
[tone beeps]
I liked that one.
- [Interviewer] I think that was great.
♪ Dahoo dores ♪
I noticed.
[tone beeps]
- [Woman] "Work." [clapboard taps]
- [Interviewer] How's work?
[slow tonal music]
- Work is good.
Working hard.
- [Interviewer] Is there anything
you're obsessed with right now?
- Honestly, there's this chocolate milk I've been drinking.
It's [chuckles] really good.
It's like one of those drinks.
It's like a meal and a drink.
It's like got all the protein in there.
I don't know how it works, but it's good.
It's called what?
Farm.
- [Mom] Kate Farms.
- Kate Farms.
- [Interviewer] What do you love most about a mosh pit?
- Ooh.
The freedom.
Oh, my God!
I haven't felt that since I've been in one.
But, ah...
I always felt that a mosh pit
is just like a bunch of mother [bleeps] that don't care.
I love it.
Nobody's looking at you.
Nobody's [bleeps] judging whatever you got going on.
It's just
energy.
And I love
that.
There is nothing like that.
- [Interviewer] What's your favorite Beatles song?
- I love "Something."
I love "Julia."
I love "You Never Give Me Your Money."
I love "Anna [Go to Him]."
I love "Maxwell's Silver Hammer."
Gosh, I could go on and on.
I love the Beatles.
- [Interviewer] What's the one song you listen to
when you want to feel free?
[Billie sighs]
- Maybe "You Don't Get Me High Anymore," Phantogram
or "Tear You Apart," She Wants Revenge.
[grunts] The flavor [tongue clicks]
of that song.
- [Interviewer] What's the biggest way
that other art forms influence your music?
- [sighs] I really get influenced by everything.
I mean, I couldn't really put a pin in it and tell you.
That is not the sentence.
That's not the phrase that I meant at all.
Put a pin in it?
I'm not even gonna try to come up with what phrase
I'm trying to say.
But yeah, I get inspired by all sorts of things,
everything visual, fashion,
like, you know,
patterns and fabric, and things people say, and you know,
my dreams, it's really all over the place.
I get inspired by everything, like to a fault.
I can't keep myself from it.
- [Interviewer] Is there a film that deeply changed
or affected you?
- "The Babadook," "Fruitvale Station,"
"We Need to Talk About Kevin,"
"Get Out." [bleeps]
Yeah. Those are the favorites.
- [Interviewer] If you weren't singing and creating music,
what career path would you be pursuing?
- I always thought that I would be like a backup dancer
for artists, [chuckles] which is ironic, or...
Well, I mean, I used to think
I would just work at Jamba Juice and just live my life.
Honestly, either Jamba Juice or like Trader Joe's,
that's where I thought I'd work.
Yeah. [chuckles]
- [Interviewer] What's the biggest difference
between your creative process now
versus when you're working on "When We All Fall Asleep"?
- Ooh, biggest difference.
Honestly, everything is different.
Like, we really haven't done anything the same.
We haven't made any of it in the same place.
We've grown
so much in just the way that we create.
I've been writing so much more,
and honestly, so much better than I ever have.
I feel like a different person.
Like I really couldn't be happier
with what I've been creating,
and I couldn't be prouder of myself than I am
about what I feel that I've created.
- [Interviewer] What's the most important thing to remember
when you're dealing with extreme amounts of pressure?
- You'll die and then it won't matter.
That's what I always say.
And everybody is always like, "Oh, give me a better..."
No, it's literally what I...
It's all I think about.
It brings me peace, and that might sound weird.
It might not work for you.
But to me,
I just think about how
all life is, is just life,
and it's really not that deep.
And you should be nice to people while you have it.
And you should be, you should take care of the planet
and take care of people and take care of, you know,
fight for your rights and fight for others.
But you gotta remember that...
it's just life, nothing more,
and just have fun and be nice.
And don't do stupid [bleeps].
But
we'll die one day,
and you won't have to think about it anymore.
That's what I think.
Is it bad? I don't know.
It makes me feel better.
[tone beeps]
[Billie whistles]
[man chatters]