Halsey Quotes
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The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.
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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.
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You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
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When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Being a musician, people ask you a lot about what musicians inspire you, and there's plenty of musicians that I love and respect, but I think that I'm the most inspired by cinema.
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I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone can relate to, the concept of wanting something more, wanting to find solace, wanting to have something better.
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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.
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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.
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That's one thing the musicians don't remember: you don't choose your demographic - they choose you.
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Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.
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I wear my personality on my sleeve, for sure, and my look is constantly changing because so am I.
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I used to work at a punk venue in Pennsylvania because I wanted to be near music.
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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.
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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.
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My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
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Please don't erase my race because I'm white-passing. There is literally nothing I can do about my complexion.
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Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage.
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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.
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I want to be treated like a musician.
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I learned how quickly I could go from having never met someone to having the world think I'm dating them.
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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.