“People around me like me the best when I'm depressed because I'm a bit...” — Halsey Quote

“People around me like me the best when I'm depressed because I'm a bit more passive.”

“Whether it's writing songs, being on stage, being interviewed, meeting fans - I just try to be myself, which is kind of exhausting because it almost feels like it never shuts off.”

“That's one thing the musicians don't remember: you don't choose your demographic - they choose you.”

“At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.”

“I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.”

“When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.”

“I think the gender norms of emotion are horrendous. Being masculine means showing zero emotions, but having the choice to be angry or depressed. Being female means you are one dimensional - if you show more than that, you are a psycho, hysterical, or historically, a witch.”

“My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.”

“I got very depressed. Hollywood can be a terrible place when you're depressed. The pits. I decided I had to change my life and do different things.”

“When you're clinically depressed the serotonin in your brain is out of balance and probably always will be out of balance. So I take medication to get that proper balance back. I'll probably have to be on it the rest of my life.”

“I am depressed sometimes, but it's not what keeps me at home or focused on work.”

“I do get depressed sometimes, I don't know why. It's since I was a kid and it's just part of my personality.”