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

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" 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. "

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

" I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not. "

" I hate feeling like a prisoner. I show up somewhere, and I can't explore the city because there's, like, 6,000 to 10,000 people on the lookout for me. "

" 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. "

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

" In a city, there's more room to be, where in a small town, you have to squish yourself down a little bit. And it's exciting for me to be pursuing a career where I don't have to be small. "

" 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. "

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

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" I'm open about having bipolar disorder. I'm open about being of mixed race. I'm open about being bisexual, and I have this wantingness to talk about it, and for me, it's about more than being a role model for any specific community. "

" 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.' "

" It's really exciting to see all those people that exist in numbers online translate into tickets and then into faces, handshakes, pictures, stories. "

" 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. "

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" I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong. "

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

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" 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. "

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

" Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "