Halsey Quotes
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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That's one thing the musicians don't remember: you don't choose your demographic - they choose you.
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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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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 love pop music, but at the same time, I'm seeking to write whatever I'm organically inclined to.
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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.
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You can expect nothing in being a musician, and you have to be just very thankful every time it goes positively for you.
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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.