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.
MELANIE MARTINEZI think honestly when I was younger I use to love going to carnivals in Long Island. I use to love carnival season; I would drive to every town going to carnivals. That was definitely a favorite memory.
More Melanie Martinez Quotes
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The flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them, away.
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Just like a flower, we blossom and transform with the proper sunlight, a balanced amount of water, enough fresh air and when we are firmly planted in the ground.
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Make sure this [music industry] is what you love to do, and you can’t imagine doing anything else.
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Love starts inside of you.
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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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I’ll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.
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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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I see things that nobody else sees.
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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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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.
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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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Even if the song meant a lot to me, I would still probably perform it live.
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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 never had a lot of friends growing up so having this insane amount of love and support really means a lot to me.
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I’m obsessed with the venue and the people so it’s going to be really fun.The last couple of tours I didn’t have anything like that because of the budget, so I’m super excited because this is really going to bring the album to life.
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