Halsey

“In a city, there's more room to be, where in a small town, you have to squish yourself down a little bit. And it's exciting for me to be pursuing a career where I don't have to be small.”

“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.”

“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.”

“'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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.”

“It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.”

“I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.”

“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.”

“I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.”