Halsey

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

“I learned how quickly I could go from having never met someone to having the world think I'm dating them.”

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

“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.”

“People are so afraid to talk about real things, but they're experiences that everyone goes through.”

“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.”

“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.”

“People around me like me the best when I'm depressed because I'm a bit more passive.”

“I cultivated this fan base that I really didn't really understand or appreciate until I put my first headlining tour up for sale. 500- to 1,000-capacity rooms weren't an underplay for me at the time. I'd never done a tour before!”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“It's really exciting to see all those people that exist in numbers online translate into tickets and then into faces, handshakes, pictures, stories.”

“Please don't erase my race because I'm white-passing. There is literally nothing I can do about my complexion.”

“If I go out there and am myself, and I do what makes me comfortable and what I think is true to my artistry, and they don't like it, then that's fine. I walk off stage, and I know there's nothing there's nothing I could have done differently.”

“Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage.”

“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!”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”