1. “I’m no sweet dream, but I’m a hell of a night.” – Halsey, “Nightmare”
2. “I promised myself I wouldn’t let you complete me.” – Halsey, “Is There Somewhere”
3. “All we do is drive. All we do is think about the feelings that we hide.” – Halsey, “Drive”
4. “As an artist you very much want to have control over your dialogue and your image and when you become exposed in a way where other people are manipulating your brand or the public perception of you that’s where it can be frustrating. It’s when you want to tell everyone to shut the f*** up and say “hear it from me, not from them.” That’s all.” – Halsey
5. “I’m headed straight for the castle. They wanna make me their queen.” – Halsey, “Castle”
6. “At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.” – Halsey
7. “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
8. “I’m not something to butter up and taste when you get bored.” – Halsey, “100 Letters”
9. “Swallow your apologies. None of them mean shit to me. And all you have these days are bad days.” – Halsey
10. “I spent a long time watering a plant made out of plastic, and I cursed the ground for growing green.” – Halsey
11. “A beautiful woman is a car crash. Shiny asphalt and smoking rubber. Melted plastic and metal edges. Glimmering glass shrapnel iridescence scattered across the road. Haphazard beauty. Dignified and slightly terrifying.” – Halsey
12. “Sorry that I can’t believe that anybody ever really starts to fall in love with me.” – Halsey, “Sorry”
13. “I’m bad at love, but you can’t blame me for tryin’.” – Halsey, “Bad at Love”
14. “I’m half of everything I hate, and half of everything I create.” – Halsey
15. “And it was on my first day on Earth that I realized I didn’t measure up, and I never would.” – Halsey
16. “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
17. “God damn right, you should be scared of me.” – Halsey, “Control”
18. “What happened to the soul that you used to be?” – Halsey, “Ghost”
19. “I miss the memories replaying in my head, I miss the thought of a forever, you and me.” – Halsey, “Strangers”
20. “It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don’t stop. I like when it’s really organic, so I try to knock it out in one shot.” – Halsey
21. “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
22. “I like the sad eyes, bad guys, mouth full of white lies, kiss me in the corridor, but quick to tell me goodbye.” – Halsey, “Ghost”
23. “I’m a wanderess. I’m a one-night stand. Don’t belong to no city, don’t belong to no man.” – Halsey, “Hurricane”
24. “Anyone who has been with me from the beginning has worked from the trenches with me and they’ve worked really hard. People that I have brought in where I am now, they haven’t worked the way that we have, they haven’t lost the sleep, and you know, the blood, sweat, and tears.” – Halsey
25. “If I want to hang out with people, they unfortunately need to be working as often as I am.” – Halsey
26. “Am I in love with you? Or am I in love with the feeling?” – Halsey, “The Feeling”
27. “Before Guadalcanal the enemy advanced at his pleasure – after Guadalcanal he retreated at ours.” – Halsey
28. “Left my shoes in the street so you’d carry me through a breakdown.” – Halsey, “Clementine”
29. “Let’s cause a little trouble.” – Halsey, “Trouble”
30. “Thank you for warming the industrial gray of my concrete foundation and turning my bones from cement blocks to rich mahogany wood.” – Halsey
31. “I’m tired and angry but somebody should be.” – Halsey, “Nightmare”
32. “I want to walk away from my bones and set them down on a counter like my keys after work.” – Halsey
33. “I gotta recognize the weapon in my head.” – Halsey, “Nightmare”
34. “I don’t say it often, but I’m proud of the woman that I turned out to be.” – Halsey
35. “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.” – Halsey
36. “I don’t say it often, but I’m proud of the woman that I turned out to be” – Halsey
37. “Be a voice for all those who have prisoner tongues.” – Halsey
38. “Stuck in the middle of “I love you” and “I can’t take this anymore.” – Halsey
39. “I keep a record of the wreckage in my life.” – Halsey, “Nightmare”
40. “My mouth tastes like all the things I should have said.” – Halsey
41. “You can’t wake up. This is not a dream. You’re part of a machine. You’re not a human being.” – Halsey, “Gasoline”
42. “I wake up every day and think about what I am to other people. What I am to the people I employ, who depend on me to wake up and do my job that day and keep this career going? I think about what I am to the kids who listen to my music and all the other people involved in this project.” – Halsey
43. “How strange to write about “having” when for so long I’ve drawn inspiration only from longing?” – Halsey
44. “A beautiful woman is a car crash” – Halsey
45. “Stop comparing yourself to others. You can be the most beautiful rose and some jerk will still say they prefer daisies.” – Halsey
46. “I keep a pistol when I sleep -inside my mouth so I don’t fight my tongue -for saying all these things, like how I saw you in my dreams.” – Halsey
47. “I want to walk away from my bones and set them down on a counter like my keys after work. Let my skin sink into the armchair and lose its shape. Lose its form. Collapse into a sigh.” – Halsey
48. “To drop seeds into my belly. To spit a virus in my throat that grew into a giant “you” plant. The branches crawling up the walls of my insides and begging to claw my mouth open and make me say things I don’t mean. The dying leaves flaking off and swaying to the pit of my stomach in an imaginary breeze landing with a deafening thump. Echoes that bounce up between my teeth. And remind my tongue there is no more watermelon. Just empty space.” – Halsey
49. “My love is yours if you’re willing to take it.” – Halsey, “Eastside”
50. “There’s a booming, rotating, never sleeping city in the center of my brain and no body can come in and I can’t escape. I have a strange sense of pride that my brain works that way, but I’m also terrified of what would happen if I ever tried to think in another way.” – Halsey
51. “I hope you’ll stay. I hope you’ll stay. But I would leave me too, if I could.” – Halsey
52. “Sometimes the heart is deceiving.” – Halsey, “The Feeling”
53. “Sick of all these people talking, sick of all this noise. Tired of all these cameras flashing, sick of being poised.” – Halsey, “Castle”
54. “They can break our hearts. They won’t take our souls.” – Halsey, “Empty Gold”
55. “You’re ripped at every edge but you’re a masterpiece.” – Halsey
56. “You can expect nothing in being a musician, and you have to be just very thankful every time it goes positively for you.” – Halsey
57. “I don’t need anyone. I just need everyone and then some.” – Halsey, “Clementine”
58. “But artists love what is forbidden to them, a fact I learned too – Halsey
59. “If I start writing a song and you try to have a conversation with me, you’re a bad person.” – Halsey
60. “I see all things in this world as more beautiful than I, and I spin the details of their atoms in every paragraph and brushstroke.” – Halsey
61. “You’ve got a fire inside but your heart’s so cold.” – Halsey, “Haunting”
62. “I’m half of everything I hate, and half of everything I create.” – Halsey
63. “I was as pure as a river, But now I think I’m possessed, You put a fever inside me, And I’ve been cold since you left.” – Halsey, “Haunting”
64. “I’m standing in the ashes of who I used to be.” – Halsey, “Angel on Fire”
65. “Low on self-esteem, so you run on gasoline.” – Halsey, “Gasoline”
66. “They cry, “But I WANT to be a writer!” And my head hangs. You are asking to be shot square in the head. You know not what you seek. You ask for bleeding brains and carnage that stains your pillowcase. You ask for jelly in the place of the cartilage in your spine. You ask for kindness that is never returned. You wish to burn alive in the flame of a love unrequited. It’s simple. Write.” – Halsey
67. “I love you more than I love anybody.” – Halsey
68. “He’s out his head, I’m out my mind. We got that love, the crazy kind.” – Halsey, “Him & I”
69. “Swallow your apologies. None of them mean shit to me. And all you have these days are bad days.” – Halsey