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" 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. "

Halsey

Writing

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Horizon

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Love

Listening

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I Am

Used

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" The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people. "

Halsey

Time

Isolation

" I didn't even realize I was writing songs - I thought I was just being witty and sarcastic. "

" It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. If I start writing a song, and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person. "

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Conversation

Start

" I want to be treated like a musician. "

Halsey

Musician

Treated

" In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money. "

" As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural. "

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Halsey

Writing

World

" I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me. "

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Running

Always

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