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.
MELANIE MARTINEZEveryone got to choose what they wanted to wear on stage, and by the third time going into wardrobe the stylists already knew what I’d love and what I would never throw on my body in a million years. They were fantastic, and it was so lovely working with them.
More Melanie Martinez Quotes
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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.
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Just because I’m an artist doesn’t mean I should be treated differently.
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I’ve had a lot of people come up to me after shows and tell me that “Dollhouse” really helped them with whatever they were going through with their families. I thought that was really amazing, that it could mean one thing for me but another thing for someone else.
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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.
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The flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them, away.
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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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I see things that nobody else sees.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Even if the song meant a lot to me, I would still probably perform it live.
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My love language is chocolate.
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I’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.
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We all have holes, chips and scratches on us but these wear marks represent our journey, our wisdom, our knowledge, our lessons learned, our strength, and our vitality.
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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.
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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 don’t really think about what people think of my music, and how they listen to it or what my demographic is.
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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.
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If you can’t handle a heart like mine, don’t waste your time with me.
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Is it easier to pretend we are as perfect as the stars above?
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I was always hard on myself for taking things too personally.
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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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I’m glad I got to introduce myself to America by doing a Britney [Spears] song, haha!
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It’s like visual is super important to me. So if I am writing a song, like, I have to have the title.
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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.
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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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