These 11 badass Halsey quotes perfectly illustrate why we effin' love them

1. On the influence she has on others:

"I wake up every day and think about what I am to other people. What I am to the people I employ, who depend on me to wake up and do my job that day and keep this career going? I think about what I am to the kids who listen to my music and all the other people involved in this project." — via Interview

2. On being authentic:

“I think for me, it’s like my project is based on honesty. And a lot of artists say that, and a lot of artists are like, ‘I’m myself, I’m myself all the time.' I don’t fucking believe them.” — via Pop Justice

3. On the love she has for her followers:

"i love u + every detail of yourselves u share with me is something I carry in my pocket. thanks for letting me in. I'm happy to do the same." — via Twitter

4. On being vulnerable:

“I try to keep a healthy amount of vulnerability while still having a sense of awareness and authenticity. I'm self-aware in my writing. I'm twenty years old. My life is run by sex and sadness. This is the year of angst for me...so I wrote an angsty record.” — via Fuse

5. On being aware of identity issues:

“I mean, there's a ton of biphobia — people refuse to accept bisexuality as an actual sexuality. And I'm biracial, but also white-passing, which is a unique perspective.” — via Rolling Stone

6. On her relatable love for carbs:

“really gotta stop eating bagels.” — via Twitter

7. On mental health, and how mental illness is fetishized:

“I was the new kid and I had the sides of my head shaved and tattoos. And I was a fuckin' weirdo. This plight, like you said, of being the "inconvenient woman," just comes from people expecting me to...I'm not always going to be agreeable, you know? I'm not always going to be calm. I'm entitled to my emotions and, unfortunately, because of the circumstance that I deal with, it's a little more than other people. But then there's people who seek it out as a fetish almost. They fetishize girls with mental illness. It's like, 'Yeah, I want a crazy girl.'” — via Elle

8. On the importance of speaking up about the important shit:

“please don't ever apologize to me for struggling with speaking english and fuck anyone who ever made you feel stupid for that love u.” — via Twitter

9. On paying attention to those who look up to her:

“I'm mixed race—my dad is black and my mom is white—and I'm very pale. Growing up there weren't a lot of mixed people in the media who were as pale as I was. I always felt like I was too light to identify with anyone else. I now have girls reach out to me all the time and say, 'I'm mixed race like you and I'm just as white as you are. Thank you for being that for me.' Or, you know, someone reaches out with a mental illness or someone reaches out who is, you know, a feminist. I just like to be the in-between role model—the one I didn't have growing up.” — via Elle

10. On putting herself in her work:

“It’s been a weird journey. Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that’s one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where’s your place as a songwriter. I hate limiting myself, and I hate censoring myself, but every now and then, I’ll write a line and be like, ‘Oh no, I can’t do that.’” — via Complex

11. On challenges, and being willing to do hard work:

“I think I get a kick out of proving people wrong, you know what I mean? That’s one thing I get a kick out of. It’s cool for me because I think there is a fear, you know: ‘Maybe the BBC’s not going to like you, they’re not gonna receive you well, they’re not going to understand whatever’. Obviously I want them to like me, obviously I care from a business perspective, I care about this tastemaking world and these people who are going to let that entry point exist, but from an artist perspective I don’t necessarily.

I think that deep, deep, deep, deep down inside me I wouldn’t be doing this if I didn’t want to succeed. And I do. I do want to succeed.” — via Pop Justice