Quotes from Halsey

Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.

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.

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

Being a pop-leaning, female artist, you'd think that I'd have my record company breathing down my neck and trying to control everything I'm doing. Actually, they've just kind of let me take the wheel.

When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.

You don't know fear until it's 7 A.M. and freezing cold on live television, and you're not sure if Justin Bieber is going to kiss you or not.

My first album was called 'Badlands,' and it's something that I think I'm most proud of having done in my life.

I love Kanye West. I think he's a visionary. He's one of those people for whom I separate his personality from his artistry.

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.'

Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.

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

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

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

When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.

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.

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.

You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. 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.

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

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.

You can expect nothing in being a musician, and you have to be just very thankful every time it goes positively for you.

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

I love pop music, but at the same time, I'm seeking to write whatever I'm organically inclined to.

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.