Melanie Martinez Quotes

A lot of people say if you can't love yourself, then you can't love others. It's always different, but I definitely have loved a lot in my life.

I definitely have worked trying to create music that inspires girls to feel confident and strong, and feel like they can do anything.

I've had so many insecurities, and am still getting over a lot.

There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.

I definitely fall in love quickly, and I'm very in love with being in love. But it is hard for me to write about love.

I'll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.

I never had a lot of friends growing up so having this insane amount of love and support really means a lot to me.

Just because I'm an artist doesn't mean I should be treated differently.

I see things that nobody else sees

I was always hard on myself for taking things too personally.

I go with what I like and I generally just cling to things that are pastel and remind me of being a little kid. It's just what it is right now, but I go through phases.

I'm gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I'm feeling that day.

I have definitely noticed I am very passionate. So if I'm fighting with someone I'll be SO super loud and aggressive, and make sure that my point is heard.

I'm very, very in touch with my emotions.

I'm not used to writing about happy emotions, I'm just used to pulling from my sad or angry - happy emotions are very hard for me to portray in music.

Eventually I realized that Cry Baby was a character that was based off of me, and that we had a lot of similarities.

Make sure this [music industry] is what you love to do, and you can't imagine doing anything else.

I listen to a lot of music. But I definitely haven't looked at an artist and like thought I want to have a song like this.

Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist.

[My style in three words] youthful, sweet, and diverse.

Cry Baby wasn't necessarily a baby theme but I understand what they're saying. So like, Cry Baby is definitely a remaining character throughout all of my albums.

I'm happy that I get to work with people that I enjoy being around. It's really cool when people understand and want to help your vision and are like rooting for you. I just, I love them a lot.

I was very vocal about how I wanted to be portrayed on the show, and how I wanted the stage setup to be.

Cry Baby is just a character in this world that I'm trying to create, and the music videos are really important to me, and I've fought to obviously get all of them approved.

I have a few songs that I'm figuring out and writing. I'm still figuring out the whole concept and how it's gonna connect to Cry Baby, but I have some ideas, yes.

"Dollhouse" was definitely inspired by the whole Edward Scissorhands vibe where all of the houses are perfect, but inside each home there are very messed up families.

I definitely love horror movies and all that for sure.

If I don't see a music video to it while writing it, I just scrap it immediately. It's very visual.

Even if the song meant a lot to me, I would still probably perform it live.

So like what I want to do is connect all of my albums and make it tell a bigger kind of story. So the first album is very focused on her family life and her love life.

I don't really think about what people think of my music, and how they listen to it or what my demographic is.

When I was younger I used to be really into photography, and I still am, I just don't really get to do it besides taking my own artists photos and stuff like that.

When I first started writing the album, "Cry Baby" was a song that I really wanted to write because it represented all of these personal insecurities that I had for a long time.

I love directing my music videos and writing video treatments, and I think it's all just because I love the visual aspect of it as well.

And still as an adult like I do as well, you know what I mean like I literally just cried in the first interview that I had today. Like, I'm just a very emotional human.

On the show [the Voice] I obviously wasn't allowed [singing my own original music], because it's not that type of show. I think it's really cool that I get to do my own thing now.

I obviously have a different connection to each song in a different way, and they all mean something different to me.

I love Nicoletta Ceccoli , and I love Tim Burton movies. So those are like my biggest inspirations I think.

I was genuinely happy when I wrote that song [Training Wheels] and very in love. That's a very rare emotion to evoke out of me.

I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.

I also made a lot of really great friends on that show [the Voice], so that's one of the most important things that I've taken out of that experience.

I'm glad I got to introduce myself to America by doing a Britney [Spears] song, haha!

It's like visual is super important to me. So if I am writing a song, like, I have to have the title.

Cry Baby is a character so I think that the next album is going to be about a specific thing in her life or another place in her world. It's going to be a bit deeper into a bigger picture.