I think that every decision I make in my life is based off of an emotion – and it definitely hurts me in some situations, and helps in some situations, like obviously writing and stuff is my favourite thing to do because I get to use all of my emotions and express them in that way.
MELANIE MARTINEZI’m pretty excited for people to listen to the story of each song. It’s definitely like a giant book with different stories in it. They are all very child-like but also a balance between light and dark.
More Melanie Martinez Quotes
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Everyone wants to be good but good is only what we’re taught to perceive.
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I obviously have a different connection to each song in a different way, and they all mean something different to me.
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I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
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I’ll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.
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I was always hard on myself for taking things too personally.
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Doing music is time consuming, will drain you, and stress you out at times. But in the end if you love doing it, and you’re putting out music you’re proud of, it will never feel like work. It’ll just feel like love.
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Loving yourself + others is a magically addictive sensation.
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There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.
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Had to retrieve the key to my heart, Let these roses represent how it all fell apart.
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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.
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Eventually I realized that Cry Baby was a character that was based off of me, and that we had a lot of similarities.
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Tangled in transformation.
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When I create it is the only time the past, present and future all meet me at once.
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I was very vocal about how I wanted to be portrayed on the show, and how I wanted the stage setup to be.
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I think the transition between singing covers on a reality show to being able to do my own thing was really exciting. I’m no longer singing covers every second, and people are actually getting to hear my own original music.
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