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Extended interview: Billie Eilish

In this web exclusive, "Sunday Morning" correspondent Anthony Mason sits down with music superstar Billie Eilish to talk about performing on her "Hit Me Hard and Soft" tour (her first without brother Finneas). She also discusses welcoming the label of "songwriter"; what she learned from writing the "Barbie" song "What Was I Made For?"; the perceived criticisms of her singing voice and the liberation she discovered after starting vocal lessons; and the power that she says comes from expressing vulnerability in her art.

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Billie Eilish on what she's found "liberating"

Singer-songwriter Billie Eilish is just beginning to know herself. With her latest album, "Hit Me Hard and Soft," and her current tour (her first without brother Finneas and her parents), the music superstar (soon to turn 23) is discovering parts of herself she didn't know were there. She describes to correspondent Anthony Mason finding a new voice as a songwriter, and about stretching her singing after starting vocal lessons. [Watch more from Mason's interview with Eilish on "CBS Mornings" December 10.]

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Billie Eilish: "Nobody that knows me thinks I'm a dark person"

The multiple Grammy-nominee with the #1 hit "Bad Guy" says she is coming out of the "joyless" and "torturous" feeling that clinical depression and unwanted fame brought her. In this intimate conversation with "CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle King, Eilish and her brother, Finneas O'Connell, discuss the creative spirit behind her debut album, "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?" (Originally broadcast on "CBS Sunday Morning" on December 8, 2019.)

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