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

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well. "

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

" I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world. "

" I wear my personality on my sleeve, for sure, and my look is constantly changing because so am I. "

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

" My first album was called 'Badlands,' and it's something that I think I'm most proud of having done in my life. "

" 'Badlands' is a very tangible record; a lot of the sounds were actual things: they were pots and pans, and they were rocks, and they were voices,and instruments used in a way to create a landscape of sound. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I was obsessed with learning about social behaviors. I remember explaining to my mom that kids on my soccer team were fighting because of dyads and triads. "

" 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. "

" 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 love pop music, but at the same time, I'm seeking to write whatever I'm organically inclined to. "

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

" 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.' "

" The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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'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. "

" 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? "