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" So many people are concerned with being the perfect 'something.' Whether it's the perfect singer, the perfect sexy girl, or the perfect feminist. I don't want to be the perfect anything. "

Halsey

Sexy

People

Girl

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Find

Think

" 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'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. "

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" I cultivated this fan base that I really didn't really understand or appreciate until I put my first headlining tour up for sale. 500- to 1,000-capacity rooms weren't an underplay for me at the time. I'd never done a tour before! "

" 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

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

" If I go out there and am myself, and I do what makes me comfortable and what I think is true to my artistry, and they don't like it, then that's fine. I walk off stage, and I know there's nothing there's nothing I could have done differently. "

" 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 consider myself someone who takes a lot of beauty risks, and I've realized what I liar I am. I change my hair a lot, from blue to blonde to bald, but I'm trying to branch out a little more with makeup. "

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

" I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag. "

Halsey

Existence

" 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

" 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. "

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

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" The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when someone is rude to you, that's you. "

" 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. "

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

" I feel like, if I'm going to have young, impressionable people listening to my music, then I'm going to respect that. "

" I was doing some YouTube covers, and I had a decently popular blog on Tumblr. "

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

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

" 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. "

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