“The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emerg...” — Halsey Quote

“The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when someone is rude to you, that's you.”

“'Badlands' is a very tangible record; a lot of the sounds were actual things: they were pots and pans, and they were rocks, and they were voices,and instruments used in a way to create a landscape of sound.”

“I was doing some YouTube covers, and I had a decently popular blog on Tumblr.”

“A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vibe without having to actually use guitars, because 'Badlands' is a very futuristic record - and making it that in an era of futuristic music is a really hard thing to do!”

“I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.”

“My EP, 'Room 93,' was all about isolation - it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person.”

“War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.”

“The last thing you want to do is play a long gig on a hot night, pass out, and wind up in a hospital emergency room.”

“Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced back in the '70s and '80s.”

“I will do everything, everything in my power, for as long as I am here, to enable the people of King Cove to receive proper emergency access that the rest of us take for granted.”

“An emergency on the labour ward needs to be addressed within minutes or else lifelong disability or even death can follow for the baby or mother.”

“I'm good in an emergency.”