Halsey Quotes

I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'

I'm always kind of surprised how much I'm associated with country music.

It's pretty weird to me that our music is as popular as it is.

I remember people telling me that at 5 1/2 minutes long, 'Lightning Crashes' would never be a hit song.

Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It's like a bit of the perfect storm.

I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way.

For a long time I was trying to be poppier and younger. I didn't want to be on public radio or do any of that stuff for older people. Then I realized that that is exactly what I listen to.

Dance music is Madonna's base. It's what she likes, it's what she listens to. It's not anything other than that. She doesn't read what's on the charts. And if it's on time, great. This is who she is.

I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do the music and if people like it, they like it.

I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

I'm starting to find out that a lot of people that you wouldn't think listen to me really do.

I'm not like Stephanie Mills or Whitney Houston with actual hits. My fans think everything I did was a hit.

We don't go around the world counting ticket and record sales, nor do we glue our ears to the radio to hear what's trendy at the moment - we're not that type of band.

Ninety percent of the general public aren't gangstas, so all of the rappers aren't going to be gangstas.

I guess because we're essentially a two-man band, we're attracting Wham's crowd. But Wham! are more of a businessman's band.

The music I do and the fans I attract? I got crazy fans.

We were overwhelmed by how much the first album connected with people, but I wouldn't put us in the 'pop star' realm.

I think people sometimes confuse 'catchy' with something that should automatically be a hit in today's world. I mean, obviously we write a lot of stuff that's catchy, that sticks in your head. But that doesn't necessarily mean that middle-school kids are going to want to listen to a song about a lawyer or a Subaru or whatever.

'The Fire in The Booth' exposed me to a wider audience. I had hundreds of thousands of followers, loyal followers before that, that's been following me on the journey.

People say I'm destroying hip-hop, and I'm like, there's so much hip-hop, and it's so popular, so I don't know why I have the power to destroy it.

When you're in the studio, you can't be like, 'I want to make music that everybody will like!' You have really understand your fan base, what they like, and that's what you do it for.

Commercial success won't come to us from a change in the music. It will gradually be the result of a change in the appetite of the audience.

Spice Girls appealed to little girls. It wasn't good music - mums would buy the albums for their kids - it was all about the gimmicks.

I don't really see myself as a pop star. I guess I just really enjoy being able to play my music for people who actually want to listen to it.