If I start writing a song and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person. Halsey More Quotes by Halsey More Quotes From Halsey Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable. Halsey i-am being me bisexual People are so afraid to talk about real things, but they're experiences that everyone goes through. Halsey everyone things real 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.' Halsey i-am nothing think candid 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. Halsey dating crazy home life 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. Halsey bad you bad-girl girl 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. Halsey music love science people I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible. Halsey make myself fear sometimes In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money. Halsey money girl food morning I love Kanye West. I think he's a visionary. He's one of those people for whom I separate his personality from his artistry. Halsey think personality love people 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. Halsey everyone find better think 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. Halsey free boring dark time 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 girl perfect people I was a weirdo. I think I wanted to be liked, but I didn't have the attention or bother to actually make an effort to be. I also think I had a different perception of what I needed to do to be liked. Halsey think effort perception attention 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. Halsey city think you beauty You can be accessible without catering to an audience. Halsey without you catering audience I didn't even realize I was writing songs - I thought I was just being witty and sarcastic. Halsey realize thought being writing 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. Halsey myself learning time people I'm not going to present myself one way all the time just because it will make me sell best. Halsey best myself me time I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great. Halsey saying something great remember I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not. Halsey singer even very good
