Halsey Quotes

I am a woman, and I am Jewish; I'm a film-maker, and I'm a writer, so you cannot just put me in one box.

Even with whatever people want to label me with, there are so many other sides to me.

No one is any one thing.

Don't classify me, read me.

In school, I really felt like I didn't fit a type. I think everybody had a hard time putting me in a category. They all sort of realized, 'Hmm, you don't really look like a soprano. You're not really a character belter.'

It's been helpful to have so many opportunities to look different so people stop pigeonholing you.

I don't want to be easily defined.

I don't use labels a lot.

All of us, although we may have a label attached to us, that's not who we are.

Someone once asked me if I was gay. I said, 'Do you think a three-letter word defines the complexity of my humanity?' I avoid the trap of easy definition.

I want to show the world that if you want to be a bearded lady you are allowed to do it without being discriminated against.

I couldn't put into a capsule one thing that represents me, I don't think.

I was always so many different things, all at once: a little hood, a little punk, a little grunge, a little glam, a little gay. I have a whole bunch of flavours.

It's hard to pigeonhole me.

I would say I have more in common with drag queens than I do with most people.

There are infinite combinations that people can experience, because no two people are alike, and no two people's identities should be expected to be alike. I mean, we see it in fashion: one size does not fit all. And I think it's, you know, completely ridiculous that we've expected people's identities to be one size fits all.

I come from a place where I find it hard to identify with a label.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.

Labels serve a purpose. They help one be identified. And I want to be identified.

I'm a lot of things at once. I want my audience to choose the side they like most about me.

I'm not trying to repeat myself or cater myself to one specific group of people.

The girl next door isn't necessarily blonde and blue-eyed anymore. So I don't feel like I need to morph into that all-American thing.

'Different' is such a good word. For me, ever since I was little, I always felt that something was off. And I just didn't have the resources to - I just didn't know what it was.

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.