[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,