Quotes from Halsey

I wish I had 11 hands with 55 fingers so I could paint and write and fuck and feed and grab grab grab everything. I. Want. It. All. It must be mine.

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

Girls who weren't sad and tired. Girls better than me. Who had learned to turn their trauma into adventures for him to stumble blindly through. Instead of wallowing in their brokenness and breaking everything in their path as penance.

A beautiful woman is a car crash

Haven't told you in a while, but you're the reason for it all. You're a vital complication I never seem to resolve.

I am not allowed to want to die anymore. Believe me, I have tried.

I saw you yesterday and felt a funeral inside. Like someone I love died, and they asked if I wanted to see the body.

I won't take anyone down If I crawl tonight But I still let everyone down When I change in size And I went tumbling down Trying to reach your height But I scream too loud If I speak my mind.

I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.

I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?

That's one thing the musicians don't remember: you don't choose your demographic - they choose you.

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

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.

I used to work at a punk venue in Pennsylvania because I wanted to be near music.

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.

When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.

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

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 learning slowly to not be as much of a control freak. I can't afford to be all the time, but I'm getting better at communicating. Delegating parts of my vision for other people to execute has made it an easier process for knowing what I want, and what people can handle, and what I should probably save for myself.

I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.