Halsey Quotes

I'm never doing a new album. I'll probably do nothing but singles. I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history. But I don't know how much longer I'll be doing it. It's not really fun anymore.

I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, 'What does he do? What does he do?' My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

I knew Chester. I've known Chester since 2001. I was in a band called Dry Cell, and we were signed by the same guy that signed Linkin Park, so that's how I knew him. He would come to some of our writing sessions and rehearsals; I'd see him in the studios that we were at.

Actually, zero labels were jumping toward me, and I couldn't get to anybody. Nobody was paying any attention. And I was like, 'OK, I'm going to put my nose to the ground and really work on writing and creating some good songs that people could gravitate to.'

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.

When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?'

I'm definitely interested in making more music and uploading new covers; I like to take suggestions because it's more fun if people know the song.

My sons are coming out with music. Square Off, they're called.

I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.

I have done a bit of recording and the songs are available on iTunes, and I've got some nice comments. It's something I enjoy doing, but I'm not looking for a singing career any time soon. As long as one person gets enjoyment out of it, I'm happy to make it available.

I've made music since I was a kid so I've always gotten joy out of that.

To go on the road and see people sing my own lyrics back to me is just fantastic.

Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.

I just love singing, songwriting and touring.

Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I'd just written this song, called Born to Try, and I had just gone overseas and spoken to some people from Song about it.

I love nothing more than to perform my songs in front of a live audience. And whatever I'm doing is driven toward finding or writing songs and putting out hit songs that drive people coming to see me live. Because, at the end of the day, that's what I enjoy the most.

I'm a songwriter and I'd love to make that a part of my career.

If I can't sing them myself, there's nothing better than writing songs for other people and watching them be performed. It's kind of more thrilling than doing it yourself.

I'm from a little island off of Massachusetts, Nantucket. It's hard getting into the music business from there, but my parents took me to songwriting festivals because I would write and produce my own music.

I just really want to make albums - and however I can, I will.

You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.