Halsey Quotes
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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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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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Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage.
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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 used to work at a punk venue in Pennsylvania because I wanted to be near music.
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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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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.
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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.
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People around me like me the best when I'm depressed because I'm a bit more passive.
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When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.
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People are so afraid to talk about real things, but they're experiences that everyone goes through.
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I was doing some YouTube covers, and I had a decently popular blog on Tumblr.
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Whether it's writing songs, being on stage, being interviewed, meeting fans - I just try to be myself, which is kind of exhausting because it almost feels like it never shuts off.
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Every 16-year-old person has a love for pop in them because pop is popular.
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I think, growing up in a small town - I grew up in a lot of different places. I grew up in a city environment, a more suburban environment, a more rural environment. That's the beauty of New Jersey is you get a lot of different types of living.
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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.
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I didn't even realize I was writing songs - I thought I was just being witty and sarcastic.
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I'm not going to present myself one way all the time just because it will make me sell best.
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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.