Halsey Quotes

Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.

I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.

I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.

I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life.

When I was growing up, the place I felt least alone was when I was reading.

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the safe place in my mind.

I keep coming back because I have no place else to go. What else would I do? I love to sing.

As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation.

That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.

Films were really my church. As a young kid, it was movies and books; it was nothing remarkable, really, just that is where I felt soothed, that is where I felt most myself... safest.

We all have our things that we go through, and I wanted to be an artist that people could listen to and feel like they're not alone. I want to be empowering.

I have many reasons why I think reading is really important. It provided for me a refuge, especially during difficult times. It provided me with the notion that I could find an ending that was different from what was happening to me at the time.

Reading was my escape growing up in Ohio. Both of my parents lost their jobs when I was a teen, and it was hard. But I always had my books. Reading gave me a way of living different lives.

I went to Paris, I went to France, I went to England, I went to Ireland. In my mind, I can go wherever I wanted to go. I left death row every day.

The music has a very strong escapist quality to it. In the moment where you feel like you need to escape, or when you are escaping, that's a good time to listen to 'When the Night.'