Top 45 Halsey Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Halsey Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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I love films that show people in a way that’s so real it’s almost unsettling, and that’s what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.
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I was obsessed with learning about social behaviors. I remember explaining to my mom that kids on my soccer team were fighting because of dyads and triads.
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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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All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Even today, I love Van McCann from Catfish and the Bottlemen and Matt Healy from The 1975.
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Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage.
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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.
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I made up ‘Badlands’; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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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.
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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 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’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.
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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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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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A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vibe without having to actually use guitars, because ‘Badlands’ is a very futuristic record – and making it that in an era of futuristic music is a really hard thing to do!
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I was doing some YouTube covers, and I had a decently popular blog on Tumblr.
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‘Badlands’ is a very tangible record; a lot of the sounds were actual things: they were pots and pans, and they were rocks, and they were voices,and instruments used in a way to create a landscape of sound.
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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 a human, and I’m multidimensional. If I was the perfect form of anything, I’d be boring. If I was a free spirit all the time, I would be boring; I would lack depth. If I was dark and enigmatic all the time, then I would lack relatability.
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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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I’m a musician with a very unique mental state, I suppose. I’m agoraphobic. I’m scared to leave my house. I haven’t been alone in, like, two years. I’m either with my boyfriend or my assistant, my manager or my tour manager. I won’t go anywhere by myself; I’m too terrified.
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You can be accessible without catering to an audience.
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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 didn’t even realize I was writing songs – I thought I was just being witty and sarcastic.
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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 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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I’m a fixer, unfortunately. I’m like, ‘Oh, I can fix you.’ But it’s not just guys I’m dating anymore. It’s this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.
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I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there’s a kid saying something great.
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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 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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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we’re doing Madison Square Garden.
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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.’
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I put so much of myself out there and make myself so ac

I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.
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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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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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My mom is awesome. She’s really young. My mom is 40, and she raised me listening to Nirvana and Courtney Love and Coldplay, Gin Blossoms, The Cranberries, and stuff. Like, my early, early memories are of being a little kid running around in floral skirts and Doc Martens when I was, like, three.
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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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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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When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.
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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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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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People are so afraid to talk about real things, but they’re experiences that everyone goes through.
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I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.
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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.
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I don’t want to be ‘Halsey: America’s Sweetheart,’ or ‘Halsey: Bad Girl.’ If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I’ve done something wrong.
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In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars – my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents’ basement – to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.
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