Quotes from Halsey

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.

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

My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.

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.

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.

Whether it's writing songs, being on stage, being interviewed, meeting fans - I just try to be myself, which is kind of exhausting because it almost feels like it never shuts off.

I'm a musician with a very unique mental state, I suppose. I'm agoraphobic. I'm scared to leave my house. I haven't been alone in, like, two years. I'm either with my boyfriend or my assistant, my manager or my tour manager. I won't go anywhere by myself; I'm too terrified.

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.

I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.

You were red, and you liked me because I was blue, but you touched me and suddenly I was a lilac sky, and you decided purple just wasn't for you.

I hope you'll stay. I hope you'll stay. But I would leave me too, if I could.

I'm a wanderess I'm a one night stand Don't belong to no city Don't belong to no man (Note: These lyrics were inspired by Roman Payne's quote from his novel "The Wanderess".)

I'm half of everything I hate, and half of everything I create.

My mouth tastes like all the things I should have said.

I see all things in this world as more beautiful than I, and I spin the details of their atoms in every paragraph and brushstroke.

Be a voice for all those who have prisoner tongues.

How strange to write about "having" when for so long I've drawn inspiration only from longing?

And it was on my first day on Earth that I realized I didn't measure up, and I never would.

You're ripped at every edge but you're a masterpiece.

I can't remember what it's like to face a mirror And not hate the person staring back at me

I don't say it often, but I'm proud of the woman that I turned out to be

They cry, "But I WANT to be a writer!" And my head hangs. You are asking to be shot square in the head. You know not what you seek. You ask for bleeding brains and carnage that stains your pillowcase. You ask for jelly in the place of the cartilage in your spine. You ask for kindness that is never returned. You wish to burn alive in the flame of a love unrequited. It's simple. Write.

Stuck in the middle of "I love you" and "I can't take this anymore.

But mostly poetic I'm whatever I've seen on a movie screen