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" You numb yourself so you're not terrified when you're on TV at 7 o'clock in the morning with Justin Bieber, who you just met a couple of days before, having to perform in front of millions of people. "

Halsey

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

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" A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vibe without having to actually use guitars, because 'Badlands' is a very futuristic record - and making it that in an era of futuristic music is a really hard thing to do! "

" Whether it's writing songs, being on stage, being interviewed, meeting fans - I just try to be myself, which is kind of exhausting because it almost feels like it never shuts off. "

" 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. "

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" You don't know fear until it's 7 A.M. and freezing cold on live television, and you're not sure if Justin Bieber is going to kiss you or not. "

" 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. "

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" I want to be treated like a musician. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

" Being a musician, people ask you a lot about what musicians inspire you, and there's plenty of musicians that I love and respect, but I think that I'm the most inspired by cinema. "

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

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

" 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. "