Finneas O'Connell

When I find out people have had careers in the arts when they were actively discouraged, you know, when you hear somebody say, oh, man, my mom hated my voice, I'm always kind of blown away because to me, I had enough self-doubt and enough...

you know, um, imposter syndrome that, that if anyone had said, you're not very good, I would have been like, correct.

I agree.

Um, you know, let me, let me stop doing this now.

And it really took people like Billy and people like my friend Frank to be like, no, no, no, you're better than you think you are.

Um, to, to kind of give me the confidence that I needed.

I was 18.

The body equivalent of money doesn't buy you happiness or something where you're like,

Looking the way I thought I wanted to look doesn't make me happy either.

Sure.

We had just finished making Billie's album and it was about to come out.

And I knew that this, you know, multi-year world tour was on the horizon for her and that I wouldn't be on it.

I was just sort of thinking about my relationship with her and how kind of public our family had become.

And, you know, she's a public figure.

I'm a lesser public figure and

There's a lot of attention and judgment paid to us both and especially to Billy and sort of a rumination on that.

Thanks so much, Terri.

mom and dad are out of town the two of us are grown-ups now pepper had to be put down hard to take hard to own not hard to break a collarbone a little late but not alone

And you're only 22 And the world is watching you Judging everything you do Just a house and just a room Just a handful of balloons Just another afternoon Just the way it almost was When it's just

Hi, how's it going?