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Oh my god.

We're back with Billie Eilish.

And so you've got huge,

I mean, like you've got fans that are Julia Roberts,

Sam Smith, Tom York.

Dave Grohl is here.

He's a huge fan of yours.

He, you know, I mean like you have major people that are fans of yours.

It's unreal.

It's crazy because, like, I don't know.

I feel like recently I've met a lot of people that my parents grew up as fans of.

And that's no disrespect to your age, Dave.

But no, but I think that's when it really hits me.

Because I was even in a meeting with Stella McCartney,

and she FaceTimed her dad, which is Paul McCartney.

So my mom cried.

My dad cried.

Yeah.

Your eyes are so beautiful.

Me?

Yeah, you.

Oh.

I thought you were still telling the story.

No. Your eyes are beautiful.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Yeah.

All right, so is that who freaked you out the most?

Is Paul McCartney, do you think?

Probably.

I feel like probably.

But in London, Sporty Spice came back stage.

Oh.

And that meant something to you?

That did.

Did you follow the Spice Girls?

You're too young for that.

OK, can I tell you something?

Well, you're here.

So when I was growing up,

I would watch, growing up,

I'm 17, we would watch Spice World.

I watched that movie like 40 times.

And I thought it was like a fictional movie about a group of girls who were in a group,

and they sang.

And I thought that was it.

I was like, and then I remember seeing some Spice Girls,

and I was like, oh my god, they're reenacting the movie.

Yeah.

Because I thought it was like a fictional movie about some girls called the Spice Girls.

Right.

It wasn't.

No, no.

And so you spoke about something that I think is really important and brave that you didn't intend to speak about,

but that you have Tourette's Syndrome and that it comes out at certain times.

But I think that's amazing that you spoke about it,

because you kind of take away the scariness of it.

It's something I've lived with my whole life.

And everybody knows, like everybody in my family,

all my friends, all the people that are closest to me know I have it.

And it's not anything different, you know?

And I just never said anything because I didn't want to,

I didn't want that to define who I was.

I didn't want it to be like,

the artist with Tourette's, Billie Eilish is on Ellen.

Yeah.

I have ways of kind of making them go away.

So if I'm on like,

if it's like an on-camera interview or whatever.

That's what this is.

Yes, it is.

But normally, if it's like a pre-taped thing,

they cut out the questions.

Right.

And that's when I let them out.

But then there was this one interview where they didn't tell me they weren't going to cut the questions out.

So I'm sitting there answering the questions like, uh-huh.

And then they start asking me questions.

And I'm like, and then everyone's like, that's so funny.

And they made a whole,

there was tons of compilations.

Like, this is so funny that Billie did this facial expression.

When really, it's just a bunch of tics.

Right.

Well, no, I think, like I said,

I think it's a good thing that you,

because I'm sure a lot of people have that.

And it's look at where you are and look at what you have accomplished.

And you haven't let that even make you feel like there's something wrong with it.

Because it's not.

It's just part of who you are.

I think I also really learned that a lot of my fans have it.

Yeah.

Which made me feel kind of more at home with saying it.

Yeah.

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Because I remember post.

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And also, I felt like there was a connection there.

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I felt like when I said that,

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there were kids that were posting and being like,

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oh my god, I've always had this.

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Yeah.

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Now she has it and she's who I can look up to with it.

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Yeah.

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No, I think it's, like I said,

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I think a lot of people watching now that maybe didn't hear you say it before will be like,

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well, I have it too, and that's great.

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All right, so you're a fan of Justin Bieber's,

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and he just started following you on today, right?

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He just started following you?

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I'm following you.

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You excited about that?

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Yeah.

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You haven't met him before?

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No. All right, well, you should meet him.

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No, he's not here.

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No. No. No. Oh my god.

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I'm just saying.

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Hey, you got to watch yourself.

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I know.

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I'm so sorry.

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No, he's not in there either.

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OK.

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OK.

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Man, what the?

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I know.

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Hey, his butt has been on here.

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Yeah, his butt has been on that seat before.

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But you will meet.

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You will meet him.

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Someday.

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He's not here today, but you will.

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All right.

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I think that what I.

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Oh!

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What the hell?

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I don't know.

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What?

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I didn't have Justin.

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I had him.

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He was in there.

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He's gone now.

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All right, I don't get scared.

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I think if we played that back to you.

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Back to you.

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Yeah.

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Oh, it's Razz Baby.

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Oh my god, it's so fun.

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All right.

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Have you heard from her?

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I haven't.

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I think she put it out.

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So I'm hoping that she's OK with it.

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I think she is.

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She's pretty funny.

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And her mom, I think I said,

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maybe I said this, but her mom was my first improv teacher.

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No way.

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Maggie Baird, who was amazing.

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So they were, I think when this came out, they were on tour.

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Do you know that if she probably.

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Oh my god.

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Oh my god.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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I didn't know.

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Look at her.

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How you doing?

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Oh my god.

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What if you knocked me out if I was like.

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Oh my god.

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Oh my.

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Holy.

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How long were you in there?

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Were you just hanging out in there?

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I was in there for a minute.

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Malta!

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And she's going on tour,

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so she rushed to do this just as a favor to you.

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Oh, my god.

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Is it OK?

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It's so cute.

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It's cute.

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I'm going to have to.

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Yay!

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I got a lot of,

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it made me cool for a minute with my kids.

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Did it?

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Yeah.

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I'm glad.

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Yeah.

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I'm glad.

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I'm glad.

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All right, let's just see what happened here.

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Oh, god.

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That if she probably.

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Ah!

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Oh my god!

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That was so fun to do.

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Oh my god.

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I'm still weirdly shamed.

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You're just not supposed to experience that.

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Really?

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I mean, it's delightful.

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But also, it's beautiful.

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She wanted to do it.

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She loves the scares of the show.

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I did.

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I pulled up.

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I was like, I had to avoid you.

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Because you actually got here at the same time I did.

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Really?

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And so I had to pull my car into my own private little spot.

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Oh my gosh.

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Is that why I couldn't go over there?

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Yeah, it was.

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Oh.

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It was.

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But she did this for you,

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because she's got to take off.

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She's starting her tour tonight.

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So here you go.

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Where's first?

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I've been going to do.

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I really don't know what's first.

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But I'm gone for a month once again.

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So I'm excited.

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I'm actually like.

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Are you doing any stuff in LA?

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Yes.

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I'm at the Greek.

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I'm at the Shrine.

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I just bought tickets today.

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I bought tickets.

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I bought tickets.

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Why do you buy them?

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Yeah, you got to go.

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She's awesome.

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She's awesome.

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I didn't know you'd be coming out of a box today.

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I'm going to bash you.

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How are you?

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I'm good.

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I'm good.

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How are you?

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I'm good.

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Yeah?

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All right.

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I'm good.

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All right.

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I got a cramped knee now.

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Oh, no. My leg is all types of cramped.

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The Kitchen is in theaters August 9th.

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We'll be right back.

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Billie Eilish, everybody, on our show.

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We like to have a lot of fun, especially, sorry, somebody.

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There's an empty screen.

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Did someone?

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Someone stepped out.

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Hello?

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Someone stepped out of the screen.

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Are you there?

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Oh, there you are.

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Hi.

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Ellen.

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Hi, Billy.

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Hi, I think I just popped out.

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I'm here.

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What's up, Ellen?

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Hey, it's Billie Eilish.

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And I don't know what are you doing in my audience?

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I'm just here to watch.

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I'm just a fan.

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I'm a big fan.

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That's so sweet.

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Well, you want to be my next guest because you're here.

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I would love to be your next guest.

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All right, then you're going to go to this screen now.

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I'm going to move you to a screen.

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Please welcome Grammy Award winning artist and incredible woman, Billie Eilish.

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Billie, I love your new look.

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What made you go?

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I mean, you always change your hair,

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but why did you decide to go blonde?

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It's been a, I've been wanting it blonde for a while.

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I don't know what came over me.

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I saw a fan edit when I had green hair.

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And it was like me,

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just with whatever hair color I had.

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And they just edited blonde hair on me.

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And I was like, ah,

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it's so sick, I want it.

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So I kind of thought of it as a dream.

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I didn't think it was going to happen,

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because my hair has been through so much.

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I thought I would burn it all off if I tried.

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But I did it.

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You did it.

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How long did it take?

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Because I know you had to wear a wig while you were transitioning into blonde.

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Because it's hard to go from dark,

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dark hair to that color blonde.

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Yes, it's very hard.

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It took about six weeks.

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Wow.

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It was a lot.

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Because it was, you know,

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we started in on January,

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I think January 16th was the first day.

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And then it was like two weeks of nothing,

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like healing, letting my hair kind of like take it in and digest and recover.

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And then again, and then two more weeks,

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and then again, and then a week.

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And then, oh my god, took a long time.

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Yeah.

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It's a, and it's healthy.

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It's not falling out when you brush it.

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Well, I got to say it's been falling out when I brush it for years.

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Yeah.

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OK.

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So nothing new.

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So you announced you have a new album coming out soon.

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What can you tell us about this music?

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What's new?

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Everything's new, Ellen.

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Everything's new.

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It's a whole new era.

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Yeah, I'm so excited.

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I can't tell you.

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It's the most proud I've ever been of anything I've created.

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And I really can't wait for the world to hear it.

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Oh, wow.

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Well, I can't wait to hear it too.

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I think we're going to be hearing it in fall, right?

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In the fall?

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July.

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July.

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Fantastic.

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I can't wait.

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And your documentary was incredible.

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What was it like watching that for the first time when you saw it put together?

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Very crazy.

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It took us like six hours to get through it

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because we kept pausing it over and over and just like screaming and running around.

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It was crazy.

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Because they were filming me for like three years,

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and I had no idea what they got on camera and what they didn't.

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So I don't know.

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I was ready to, because I'm pretty much myself in front of a camera.

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I don't really have a line.

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So I was pretty worried about what was going to be in there.

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But I love it.

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It's such an amazing, completely surreal thing that was created.

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Yeah.

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And aren't you happy that they did follow you around for three years

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so that you have those memories to watch it back?

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Absolutely.

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Yeah.

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I mean, it doesn't happen.

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Yeah.

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It's like, yeah, it's a dream.

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It's great.

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It's great.

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And I loved it, as you know.

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And I was looking at your book.

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You have a new book.

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It comes out today.

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Tell everybody about this.

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Look at you.

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Come on.

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I'm not going to hide that face.

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Look at that face.

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Come on.

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Yeah, so this is just this book that we've been working on for like half a year,

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I think, maybe more.

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It took so much work.

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It was months of me going through every single hard drive of my entire life

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and picking out pictures from literally from when I was born up until now.

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And it was an insane process.

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and just it was all completely curated by like me

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and just we like took a couple days

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and just laid every single picture out on the ground of

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my living room my living room my kitchen my kitchen counter the dining room table

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and the hallway and the couch were all covered in printed out pictures

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and I put them all in the exact order I wanted them to go in

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and like what like size I wanted them all to be in and which number.

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Oh my god, it took so long.

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It was so much work.

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But it's so cute and it's such a fun,

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insane little book of my life.

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Yeah, it is.

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It's a fantastic book.

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It's a good thing you don't have a cat,

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because that could have just knocked all of those pictures off after all that work.

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So smart.

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So there's a photo of you in the book backstage here at the show.

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What do you remember about this day of the photo?

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You, Miss Ellen, made me dress like that.

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Uh-huh.

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And I did sort of sat in a room full of fans,

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and they immediately knew it was me.

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But that's because it's something you would wear.

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You can carry anything off, Billy.

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That's a look that you could actually make.

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If you started dressing like that,

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I guarantee you there'd be like thousands of girls dressing like that the next day.

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That's how powerful you are.

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All right, Billie, I think you're fantastic.

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You know that.

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I love you.

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Your new book, Billie Eilish,

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it's available today everywhere books are sold.

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Everyone in the audience is going home with a copy.

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Hey there, pal.

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Hi.

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I'm so happy to see you.

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And I am so, I text you and tell you how much I love you and how proud I am of you.

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But I'm so happy that I get to tell you right now,

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like you just have exploded.

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And you deserve every single thing that has happened.

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Congratulations on the Academy Award.

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Thank you.

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I mean, you made, you were like 16 years old.

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You made your daytime television debut here.

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I did.

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Do you remember that appearance?

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Were you nervous?

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I was so scared.

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Really?

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Yeah.

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You were, you know, you started this show the year after I was born.

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Yes.

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So this, you know, this was in my house constantly, every day.

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Yes.

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I mean, really, I would walk into the kitchen and my mom would be watching you.

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I remember meeting them when they came with you.

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Yeah.

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I love you, Ellen.

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Are you OK?

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I'm good.

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I'm good.

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This is a big day for you.

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It's a big day, but it's just,

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to me, it's an ending of something,

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which an ending just means another beginning.

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And I'm moving on to another chapter.

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But this has been, and I got to like,

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you know, that's what I'm going to miss.

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Like I love watching you for the first time be on the show

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and then watch your career grow and grow and grow and do all the different things that you're doing.

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And I'll miss that because I love music so much.

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That's like my thing.

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I know.

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But yeah.

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But how are you doing?

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You're like headlining Coachella.

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You're playing stadiums.

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You're on tour.

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Are you like staying grounded?

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I'm so great.

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I am just having the time of my life.

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Good.

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It's been so much fun.

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The world is coming back.

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And I'm doing shows.

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And it's so good.

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I was just thinking sitting here,

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like the first time sitting here,

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which was one of the first times I'd ever been on television.

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And it was with you.

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And it was insane.

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And I remember sitting here smiling.

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And my chin was like.

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You know when you smile and you're nervous and your chin is like.

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That's how I was feeling.

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I'm feeling a little like that right now.

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No. Yeah.

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Well, OK.

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It's OK to feel like.

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You know what?

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It's actually good, because once you get to a certain place in life

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and so many things have happened and you've had so many experiences,

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it's really hard to have those nerves anymore.

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Because so you're looking for the new first feelings and stuff like that.

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So that's good.

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Yeah.

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You need to have that.

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That's right.

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What are you working on new music?

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What's happening with you now?

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I am just now starting to think of the next one.

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But I'm just having fun right now.

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I'm so happy and like in awe of the world right now.

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I'm in a really, I feel like, grateful spot.

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And I don't know.

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Tour has been so good.

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And I don't know.

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I was in the green room,

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and I was just watching you like this,

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watching everything that's going on right now and all the flashbacks.

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And it's so overwhelming and beautiful.

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It's really amazing.

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Yeah, you were like two years old when some of this stuff was happening.

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Like, it's crazy.

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I mean, the year that Jen was on, you weren't born.

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You weren't even on this earth.

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What was the year?

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No. She's very upset.

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You're right there.

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I am.

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I heard it.

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2003, I was one.

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One.

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I remember one.

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But yeah, so this show has been a long, it's been around.

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But then I'm now going to sit back at home and watch you continue to blossom and grow and do beautiful things.

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And don't let people rush you into the next album,

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the next thing, or whatever.

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Just do what you're doing, which is enjoying it.

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Because you're a brilliant soul.

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So good for you.

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I love you so much.

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I love you too.

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We'll be back.

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Bye.

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