Halsey Quotes

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Halsey

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 29, 1994

The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.

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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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My EP, 'Room 93,' was all about isolation - it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person.

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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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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.

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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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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 want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change.

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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.

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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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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to 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.

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Every 16-year-old person has a love for pop in them because pop is popular.

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In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.

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The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.

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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 love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.

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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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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 want to be treated like a musician.

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