Halsey Quotes

In a city, there's more room to be, where in a small town, you have to squish yourself down a little bit. And it's exciting for me to be pursuing a career where I don't have to be small.

You can expect nothing in being a musician, and you have to be just very thankful every time it goes positively for you.

I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I'm here, there's no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights.

As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural.

I used to work at a punk venue in Pennsylvania because I wanted to be near music.

People are so afraid to talk about real things, but they're experiences that everyone goes through.

✵ When I first met you there was a garden growing from a black hole in my mind. ✵

I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.

When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.

At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.

You numb yourself so you're not terrified when you're on TV at 7 o'clock in the morning with Justin Bieber, who you just met a couple of days before, having to perform in front of millions of people.

I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.

I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me.

I consider myself someone who takes a lot of beauty risks, and I've realized what I liar I am. I change my hair a lot, from blue to blonde to bald, but I'm trying to branch out a little more with makeup.

I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos.

My mom is awesome. She's really young. My mom is 40, and she raised me listening to Nirvana and Courtney Love and Coldplay, Gin Blossoms, The Cranberries, and stuff. Like, my early, early memories are of being a little kid running around in floral skirts and Doc Martens when I was, like, three.

Before Guadalcanal the enemy advanced at his pleasure - after Guadalcanal he retreated at ours.

I'm open about having bipolar disorder. I'm open about being of mixed race. I'm open about being bisexual, and I have this wantingness to talk about it, and for me, it's about more than being a role model for any specific community.

I'm learning slowly to not be as much of a control freak. I can't afford to be all the time, but I'm getting better at communicating. Delegating parts of my vision for other people to execute has made it an easier process for knowing what I want, and what people can handle, and what I should probably save for myself.

The only good Jap is one that's been dead six months.

I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare to the two months of joy I get engaging with the people who like my music.

I was doing some YouTube covers, and I had a decently popular blog on Tumblr.

I was obsessed with learning about social behaviors. I remember explaining to my mom that kids on my soccer team were fighting because of dyads and triads.

Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.

I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural. It is, but there are a lot of times where people treat it like a sport - there are tricks you can pull, different combinations that make something better. I don't really think I approach it that way, but I definitely have a love for the science that is pop song writing.

That's one thing the musicians don't remember: you don't choose your demographic - they choose you.

I wear my personality on my sleeve, for sure, and my look is constantly changing because so am I.

I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change.

In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.

The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.

The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.

I'm a human, and I'm multidimensional. If I was the perfect form of anything, I'd be boring. If I was a free spirit all the time, I would be boring; I would lack depth. If I was dark and enigmatic all the time, then I would lack relatability.

I love pop music, but at the same time, I'm seeking to write whatever I'm organically inclined to.

My EP, 'Room 93,' was all about isolation - it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person.

Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.

I'm not going to present myself one way all the time just because it will make me sell best.

I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.

I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.

You don't know fear until it's 7 A.M. and freezing cold on live television, and you're not sure if Justin Bieber is going to kiss you or not.

The thing about being an artist is that you evolve so quickly, you grow, you learn, you change, you find yourself hating work that you made months prior. That's the hard part about making an album, but every couple days I fall asleep listening to my album front to back and I lay there feeling so proud of what I did.

To be fair, I did come out of nowhere. 'Ghost' was the first song I ever did in a studio, my first time ever cutting a professional vocal.

I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?

I feel like, if I'm going to have young, impressionable people listening to my music, then I'm going to respect that.

Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.

The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when someone is rude to you, that's you.

It's really exciting to see all those people that exist in numbers online translate into tickets and then into faces, handshakes, pictures, stories.

I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.

Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real.

If I go out there and am myself, and I do what makes me comfortable and what I think is true to my artistry, and they don't like it, then that's fine. I walk off stage, and I know there's nothing there's nothing I could have done differently.

You're ripped at every edge but you're a masterpiece.

I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.

I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.

I was a fan of One Direction when I was 16, but I was also a fan of Bring Me The Horizon and hardcore bands.

I learned how quickly I could go from having never met someone to having the world think I'm dating them.

I want to be treated like a musician.

I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.

I love Kanye West. I think he's a visionary. He's one of those people for whom I separate his personality from his artistry.

So many people are concerned with being the perfect 'something.' Whether it's the perfect singer, the perfect sexy girl, or the perfect feminist. I don't want to be the perfect anything.

I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.

I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.

In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.