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. – Halsey
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. – Halsey
I’m a fixer, unfortunately. I’m like, ‘Oh, I can fix you.’ But it’s not just guys I’m dating anymore. It’s this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace. – Halsey
I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible. – Halsey
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. – Halsey
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
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
My mom is awesome. She’s really young. My mom is 40, and she raised me listening to Nirvana and Courtney Love and Coldplay, Gin Blossoms, The Cranberries, and stuff. Like, my early, early memories are of being a little kid running around in floral skirts and Doc Martens when I was, like, three. – Halsey
My first album was called ‘Badlands,’ and it’s something that I think I’m most proud of having done in my life. – Halsey
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. – Halsey
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. – Halsey
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. – Halsey
I love pop music, but at the same time, I’m seeking to write whatever I’m organically inclined to. – Halsey
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
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. – Halsey