[audience cheering]
AUDIENCE (chanting):
Billie! Billie! Billie!
♪ ♪
[hitting drum]
[indistinct chatter]
[laughter]
[drumming]
BILLIE:
Like, the end of January
was kind of the beginning
of a very long tour I did
that was like three months-ish
all over Australia
and then all over Europe
and the UK and stuff,
and we left again for a whole
US tour for, like, a month.
Hello, my friends.
Okay, nobody's
gonna respond.
Like, I don't wanna
think of them as fans,
I don't wanna
talk about them as fans.
Those are my siblings.
They're my ground.
[singing, vocalizing]
[singing]
- This door?
- Yes.
I'm just gonna, like...
Hi!
[fans cheering]
BILLIE:
It's really cool to, like,
pull up to a venue
that I'm playing
and I see, like, a line of kids
that just look so sick.
Like, they all
look so cool.
And they're so openminded
about stuff
and it's weird
that I'm like,
"Oh, I know that's my group.
That's them."
I do as much as I can
to sort of be their safety
because they're my safety.
You know, I'll DM them and
ask them if they're okay
just because, like,
I really care.
I just try to interact
with them and talk to them
and comment on their stuff
and like their stuff.
And, like,
those people out there,
they're just like-
I could go-
all I want to do,
to be honest right now,
is go out and just, like-
I just wanna hang out with them.
Put your fuckin' phones away.
Get that away from me.
Just talk to me, you know?
[chatter]
[fans scream and cheer]
[drumming]
[indistinct chatter]
Woo!
Cool.
Um, "Bitches", maybe?
Yeah, "Bitches".
I just want that bass, like...
I want it to blow you up.
[chuckles]
When I perform,
it's just like--
I'm just thinking about, like...
nothing except
exactly what I'm about to do.
If you think about
anything else,
it'll really throw you off.
I've had shows where
all I could think about was,
you know, something horrible,
and it just ruins the show.
It ruins you,
it ruins your mental state,
and it just is not good.
So you just gotta
shut the fuck up in your brain
and just do shit.
I like people to go crazy
and, like, jump around
and, like, mosh and stuff.
And I sort of take anything
that I'm feeling
and I just channel it through.
Is that what the saying is?
Channel it?
I just channel all my energy
to the floor, basically.
Not even to me, to the floor
because it's like
I'm jumping off the floor,
I'm going back onto the floor.
Like, the floor is the only
place that I trust anymore.
[laughs]
You can't trust anybody
but the floor
you're standing on.
And you can't even
trust that sometimes.
Fuckin' fired!
Ah. Okay, cool.
G.
Thanks, guys.
This sounds tight.
[sighs] Okay.
♪ By the way ♪
I've just learned, like,
what places are fun to perform,
what songs are fun to perform...
[smooch]
Um, that's my brother Finneas.
What--? Um.
What the fuck
was I saying?
[phone chimes]
[laughs]
Another big thing
I've learned is, like,
if you're around people
that you don't like,
you are gonna be miserable.
And so if you-- you know,
if you're gonna do a show
and you spend the whole day
with people you want
to fucking stab in the ear,
it's just not going to be fun.
My brother's my best friend
and my mom is
my other best friend
and my dad's
my other best friend.
Um, so.
It's pretty cool.
If you spend the whole day
with people that, like,
just make you happy and,
like, you just wanna go crazy,
then that's the best thing,
I guess.
FINNEAS:
Mom, enjoy the show.
MAGGIE:
I will!
Worry about filming
less than you usually do.
I will!
[laughs]
I'm still gonna
take my tour, though.
FINNEAS:
We don't have the luxury
of a film crew most of the time,
so Mom is the form
of documentation.
MAN:
It'd be great
if all they captured
was just her arm in the view.
[all laughs]
Action.
[laughs]
FINNEAS:
Who's filming who?
[light drumming]
[drumming continues]
[grunts]
[indistinct chatter]
[drumming continues]
BILLIE: If I try
to get in the zone,
I just get too in the zone
and then I can't
get out of the zone
and it's just bad.
This is another thing
that I've learned on tour.
I've learned so much.
It's crazy.
But, um, like,
if you think ahead
or you think back,
you will literally
go insane.
Like if I think,
"What am I gonna be doing
exactly 3 weeks from now?"
No, sir.
Zoo!
Zoboomafoo basketball.
Heavy door.
Hello.
Are we going down into
the Suicide Squad?
Are we, like, about
to go sing "Heathens"
with a roomful of inmates?
She's looking at me
not laughing.
Nobody laughed.
I don't make jokes
for the laughs.
I make them for me.
BILLIE:
Just with me,
I don't know
if this is with everybody,
but I just feel like
if you think about
anything besides what
you're doing right then,
it just messes you up
and I feel like
everybody's life is just
trying to finish this thing
so that you can
do the next thing.
And then once
you get to the next thing,
you're just trying
to finish that.
AUDIENCE [chanting]:
Billie! Billie! Billie!
[inaudible]
BILLIE:
This is what I'm saying.
I'm just, like-
I'm just gonna do exactly
what I'm doing right now.
I'm sitting in this chair
right now,
I'm thinking about burritos.
That's what's happening.
I'd fuck with
a burrito right now.
Burritos are so bomb.
AUDIENCE [chanting]:
Billie! Billie! Billie!
♪ ♪
[audience cheers]
♪ ♪
♪ You should see me
in a crown ♪
♪ Your silence is
my favorite sound ♪
♪ ...six feet under ♪
♪ I can't help
but wonder ♪
BILLIE:
Put down your phones.
We are never, ever
gonna be here again.
In this moment.
♪ ♪
BILLIE: I do not know,
but here I am,
and I'm doing just
whatever I'm doing.
Like, I don't care
what my purpose is.
I'm just here.
♪ But I'll never
let you back ♪
[audience cheering]
BILLIE: Everything is sorta
too big for me to describe.
So.
