Halsey Quotes
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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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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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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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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?
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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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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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When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.
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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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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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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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My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
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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.
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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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Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.
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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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That's one thing the musicians don't remember: you don't choose your demographic - they choose you.
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Being a pop-leaning, female artist, you'd think that I'd have my record company breathing down my neck and trying to control everything I'm doing. Actually, they've just kind of let me take the wheel.
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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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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.
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I want to be treated like a musician.
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I love pop music, but at the same time, I'm seeking to write whatever I'm organically inclined to.
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I feel like, if I'm going to have young, impressionable people listening to my music, then I'm going to respect that.
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It's really exciting to see all those people that exist in numbers online translate into tickets and then into faces, handshakes, pictures, stories.
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I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me.