Halsey Quotes

• There's a booming, rotating, never sleeping city in the center of my brain and no body can come in and I can't escape. I have a strange sense of pride that my brain works that way, but I'm also terrified of what would happen if I ever tried to think in another way.

  Halsey

  Sleep, Pride, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It doesn't matter how many private jets you take, how much money you make, how famous you get, keep putting in the hours.

  Halsey

  Hours, Private Jet, Jet

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• It can be difficult going through a period of time where you feel depressed because it can become your identifier. In the sense that you wake up, you're depressed; you talk to your friends, you're complaining that you're depressed; you talk to your parents, you're unmotivated. You know what you could do to try to overcome it - although obviously there's no cure - but you start to feel like, 'what will happen to me if I feel better? Who am I when I'm happy. I'm so used to feeling like this.'

  Halsey

  Feel Better, Parent, Feelings

  "Halsey: I lost a sense of who I was". Interview with Mark Savage, www.bbc.com. June 27, 2017.

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• I wake up every day and think about what I am to other people. What I am to the people I employ, who depend on me to wake up and do my job that day and keep this career going? I think about what I am to the kids who listen to my music and all the other people involved in this project.

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  Jobs, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I start writing a song and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.

  Halsey

  Song, Writing, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As an artist you very much want to have control over your dialogue and your image and when you become exposed in a way where other people are manipulating your brand or the public perception of you that's where it can be frustrating. It's when you want to tell everyone to shut the f*** up and say "hear it from me, not from them." That's all.

  Halsey

  Artist, People, Over You

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• If I want to hang out with people, they unfortunately need to be working as often as I am.

  Halsey

  People, Hanging Out

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• Being an artist and having a following can be a very scary thing because idolization makes you question your inner role in the universe. A lot of people get caught up in this idea of, "Wow! This world does revolve around me," and it most certainly does not. It's the exact opposite; these people don't exist for you, you exist for them.

  Halsey

  Artist, Opposites, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Pop music really is a love and a joy and a science [of songwriting].

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  Joy, Pops, Songwriting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The thing about being an artist is that you evolve so quickly, you grow, you learn, you change, you find yourself hating work that you made months prior. That's the hard part about making an album, but every couple days I fall asleep listening to my album front to back and I lay there feeling so proud of what I did.

  Halsey

  Couple, Hate, Fall

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. I like when it's really organic, so I try to knock it out in one shot.

  Halsey

  Song, Writing, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural. It is, but there are a lot of times where people treat it like a sport - there are tricks you can pull, different combinations that make something better. I don't really think I approach it that way, but I definitely have a love for the science that is pop song writing.

  Halsey

  Sports, Song, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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  Song, Writing, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that sometimes people fear continuity because it can turn into repetition - and there's a lot of artists who are really good at creating something new all the time. But for me it's about the consistency in my story. Because after all, I'm the protagonist in everything. All the songs are about my life so naturally there will be some connection because I'm still the same person I've always been.

  Halsey

  Song, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• 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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  Song, Inspiration, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've met so many amazing fans in the couple of weeks since the release of my second album, and everyone keeps telling me they feel so connected to the record. I think as an artist, all you really want out of your album is to feel like you're not alone.Because you wrote it for a reason. You wrote it because you're feeling some kind of emotion that you had to get out in the world. And if fans say, "that makes me feel like I'm not alone", then you get to say back to them, "Well, you telling me that makes me feel like I'm not alone either".

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  Couple, Artist, Thinking

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• Anyone who has been with me from the beginning has worked from the trenches with me and they've worked really hard. People that I have brought in where I am now, they haven't worked the way that we have, they haven't lost the sleep, and you know, the blood, sweat, and tears.

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  Sleep, People, Tears

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• Before Guadalcanal the enemy advanced at his pleasure - after Guadalcanal he retreated at ours.

  Halsey

  Military, Enemy, Pleasure

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• I love '80s happy music. I love Cyndi Lauper and Madonna, and the idea of making music that's about people celebrating fun. I spent my late adolescence in New York and I used to go to a lot of gay clubs. The music there was always just about love and connection and celebrating life. I think, for people going through something really hard, to go to a place where you can let loose and listen to music as a distraction, that's about a better place, a better way of life - that's where all the attraction lies.

  Halsey

  Fun, Lying, Gay

  "Halsey: I lost a sense of who I was". Interview with Mark Savage, www.bbc.com. June 27, 2017.

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