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" 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. "

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

Halsey

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Day

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

Halsey

Know

Myself

" I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I'm here, there's no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights. "

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

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

" There are conspiracy theorists who think I was crafted in a boardroom. Because I'm so very relatable and so very topical and so very Tumblr. "

" 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. "

Halsey

Horizon

Also

" I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience. "

" People are so afraid to talk about real things, but they're experiences that everyone goes through. "

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

" Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real. "

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

" 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. "

" In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream. "

" I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare to the two months of joy I get engaging with the people who like my music. "

" At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Halsey

I Am

Used

" I'm not going to present myself one way all the time just because it will make me sell best. "

" I want to be treated like a musician. "

Halsey

Musician

Treated

" 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. "

" 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. "