Halsey Quotes

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

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

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

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

If I am who I am, I'm provocative, candid, and androgynous; there's nothing I can do that will make any fan think, 'I didn't expect that from her.'

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Pop music really is a love and a joy and a science [of songwriting].

Please don't erase my race because I'm white-passing. There is literally nothing I can do about my complexion.

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

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.

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 wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.

Every time I got to play a show, even if it's already sold out, I'm so scared no one's going to come.

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

People around me like me the best when I'm depressed because I'm a bit more passive.

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

You can be accessible without catering to an audience.

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

The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.

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

I want to be treated like a musician.

Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.

My first album was called 'Badlands,' and it's something that I think I'm most proud of having done in my life.

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

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

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

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

Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage.

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.

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.

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

There are conspiracy theorists who think I was crafted in a boardroom. Because I'm so very relatable and so very topical and so very Tumblr.

When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.

When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.

My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.

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

I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.

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

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 didn't even realize I was writing songs - I thought I was just being witty and sarcastic.

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.

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

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

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 hate feeling like a prisoner. I show up somewhere, and I can't explore the city because there's, like, 6,000 to 10,000 people on the lookout for me.

Every 16-year-old person has a love for pop in them because pop is popular.

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