“It's really exciting to see all those people that exist in numbers onl...” — Halsey Quote

“It's really exciting to see all those people that exist in numbers online translate into tickets and then into faces, handshakes, pictures, stories.”

“I used to work at a punk venue in Pennsylvania because I wanted to be near music.”

“For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.”

“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.”

“Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.”

“As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural.”

“I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work.”

“People say, 'How's the record doing?' In the old days you'd say, 'We're at 600,000, it's doing great.' You don't say those things anymore. Those numbers are gone.”

“Numbers have life; they're not just symbols on paper.”

“I see the value of being a force. I don't want to say a force, but numbers. If you're all spread out, you can't change policy for the better, and I feel we've done that.”

“Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.”

“I don't pay attention a whole lot to what my numbers are.”