Billie Eilish Was An Intimidating Teenager | Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend

I I told you before we started rolling. that uh the world's a little blurry I. really love that documentary because. it's about the process and I love. anything. that shows both sides of. Fame success in a realistic lens and. what I you know first of all the gap. between. the journey between you two in a bedroom. you put a blanket over your head. sometimes I know uh bickering you.

prodding having arguments you know. arguing with your mom in the kitchen. um and man are you intimidating I know. when you're Billy when you're mad I have. you know uh a teenage daughter I get. terrified so when I'm watching the. documentary it's as scary to me as any. horror movie because you'll just shoot. those eyes at someone and you're not. even trying you're just staring at them. and if I were your mom I would jump out. the window I know 16 year old me is a.

scary thought it's a it's a scary sight. to see I mean I I think about myself and. think about the people that I used to. have to make them be put through being. around me at that age and I feel very I. can't I can't even it makes me sick to. my stomach thinking about if I had to be. around the younger Billy it really. freaks me out sometimes yeah scary girl. what about you I mean Phineas you seem. and this is again this is just from uh.

the documentary and and performances you. seem like someone who doesn't lose his. but do you sometimes. yeah oh yeah Phineas is an incredible. actor. incredible so so I mean genuinely are we. talking about like backstage you're are. you kicking stuff are you smashing. things should we tell stories yeah I. think that's what we're here to do uh I. was as a as a little kid as like a. five-year-old six-year-old I'm told that.

I was very explosive and I have a. infinite supply of Rage yeah. what an explanation but hi but I don't. think anyone. um should uh be on the receiving end of. it so I try to just. you know quell it I try to I try to go. empathy first but there's always rage. below it my friend my friend Ricky. always reminds me that at one point he. said he said.

do you have a lot of rage. which is a testament to like being. around me too much maybe to see me sort. of at the Guitar Center staring off in. the middle distance and uh and he said. do you have a lot of rage and I said are. you joking that was apparently looking. at us that is all I have but I don't. yeah but I don't I don't scream at. anybody true or false yeah yeah yeah I. would agree no I would agree I would. agree I I uh uh my team will disagree I. have no anger issues.

what are you are you an uh I. don't think I'm well you guys can back. me up I am not an I don't. everyone but whose mortgage is paid by. yeah I remember before you answer yeah. your checks don't come out till Monday. it's a full panel of people. um. can we meet you behind the building. later. I think I've worked for him longer than. anybody and I will say he's not an. but he has made an art form of.

being passive aggressive because the way. I grew up the way I grew up is I do have. I I relate to Phineas because I have a. lot of. anger I have a temper and what I and I. used to really get angry when I had a. bad temper when I was a kid and what I. did is I learned I grew up in a family. very unlike yours where we weren't. supposed to express negative things. Catholic we're not supposed to express. and no one was around saying well how do. you feel about what just happened.

there's none of that yeah so. um there was nobody expressing any of. that so what happened was there's a lot. of pent up anger and what I learned is. you could express anger in this I could. let it out like a teapot there's a. little hole that it's coming out but. it's shooting out at great force and. it's passive aggression it's me saying. oh wow that sounds like a wonderful idea. and people like and I mastered this. thing of being able to talk to somebody. for a bit who I was really mad at and we. had a pleasant conversation and then I'd.

leave and they'd think I think we had a. pleasant conversation oh my God I'm. bleeding. he stabbed me with words nine times but. I didn't feel it so it's an issue yeah. it's an issue that I have to work on but. I don't think you can have creativity. without some internal right you have to. have yeah uh I think that's one of the. things that I think you have to be a. little tortured that's what I think yeah. you have to be some great quote and I'm.

misquoting it but it was like a lot of. the world's great work has been been. done by people who didn't feel quite. well you know it's like it's true I. think the the caveat there is that it's. this slog and it's this Challenge and. then sometimes it's effortless for two. hours do you know does that yeah so like. we had that yesterday we've been. slogging through writing for months. yesterday we had a couple hours where it. was the faucet was on it was really easy. yeah but mostly it's not I feel bad that. I interrupted your great creative flow.

and you had to come here and do the. podcast it was yesterday yeah what if it. was going really great and they said you. got to do that Conan podcast we'd do it. thank you yeah thank you very much I. have to say that right now yeah no but. then their fans would be like what did. we miss out on by the way if you played. other giant have you played Bonnaroo. uh-huh we've done all of them you've. done all of them we did Sony you were. with me when I did Bonnaroo yeah oh. because they have they make years ago. yeah and it was what the hell trench war.

it was like trench warfare it's all mud. it takes place in the summer in this in. Tennessee you're in a tent you're in a. tent no and like what I noticed with. your fans is they love to get their. hands on you and you're very generous. about hugging people I'm the same way. I'm I don't mind hugging people huge. mistake at Bonnaroo. no one had nobody had had a shower in a. week yeah oh yeah naked and moist yeah. naked yeah and disgusting people yeah. yeah but happy and high probably like.

yeah just you know well you were high. too I was. but not too high I would send you out. for an iced coffee and you'd come back. with like a goose here you go. oh it's not an iced coffee yeah it's. Bonnaroo yeah it was a good time.