Finneas has no desire to reach his sister Billie Eilish's "untenable" level of fame.
The 26-year-old musician, who co-writes and produces all of his younger sister's songs, insisted on the Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard podcast that he does not aspire to the Bad Guy singer's level of fame.
"Being as famous as Billie is a nightmare. I would never want that. She wears it really well and she is actually a rock star," he stated. "I see it at a function and I don't want to have that and I don't pretend to have it. The consequence of that is she can't do anything. She can't really walk around."
Finneas explained that he tries to suggest ideas to get her out and about but they often become "kind of a disaster", citing a time they went to a sandwich shop at a quiet time of day and the staff were "so weird" and wanted a photo, while other patrons filmed them.
"There's a echelon of fame that's many many many rugs higher than I am that's untenable," he added.
The songwriter also noted that members of the public treat Billie, 22, differently because she's a young woman.
"I think that people interact with women differently in the public eye," he explained. "They're not intimidated by them in the way that they should be and the way that they are respectful towards men. They have no compunctions about putting a phone in Billie's face and being like, 'This is my sister on FaceTime.' I know that it's all a privilege and we're all lucky but it's f**king rude.
Billie Eilish has called out artists who release multiple versions of their albums in different packaging, saying the practice is environmentally harmful.
“Some of the biggest artists in the world [are] making f***ing 40 different vinyl packages that have a different unique thing just to get you to keep buying more,” said the 22-year-old musician. “It’s so wasteful.”
Eilish has been one of the music industry’s most outspoken campaigners on sustainability issues for some time.
Last year, she helped launch and fund Reverb’s Music Decarbonization Project, which aims to eliminate carbon emissions created by the music industry.
Eilish’s recent Happier Than Ever tour served only plant-based meals to artists and crew, and she partially powered her headline set at Chicago’s Lollapalooza by setting up a temporary “solar farm” on the festival site.
Speaking to Billboard, Eilish said she’s particularly proud of using her influence to convince fashion house Oscar de la Renta to end their use of animal fur.
“The one that was seen by the most people was getting Oscar de la Renta to stop using fur when they made me a dress for the Met [Gala],” she said.
“That was really important to me. It’s tough as a person who loves fashion. I’ve tried to be a big advocate of no animal products in clothing and it’s hard. People really like classic things. I get it, I’m one of them. But what’s more important: things being original or our kids being able to live on the planet and them having kids?”
Eilish’s 2021 album Happier Than Ever was released in eight different vinyl varients, but the singer ensured they were made from 100% recycled black vinyl, plus recycled scraps for colored variants, and shrink-wrap made from sugar cane.
“We live in this day and age where, for some reason, it’s very important to some artists to make all sorts of different vinyl and packaging,” Eilish told the magazine.
“I can’t even express to you how wasteful it is. It is right in front of our faces and people are just getting away with it left and right, and I find it really frustrating as somebody who really goes out of my way to be sustainable and do the best that I can and try to involve everybody in my team in being sustainable — and then it’s some of the biggest artists in the world making f***ing 40 different vinyl packages that have a different unique thing just to get you to keep buying more.
“It’s so wasteful, and it’s irritating to me that we’re still at a point where you care that much about your numbers and you care that much about making money — and it’s all your favorite artists doing that s***.”
Eilish recently became the first artist in her lifetime to win both the Grammy for Song of the Year and the Oscar for Best Original Song in the same year.
