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.
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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I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
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Love starts inside of you.
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I was always hard on myself for taking things too personally.
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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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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 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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There are obviously so many artists that are very inspiring, but I can’t say that they like – that I have someone in mind that is like a creative direction of where I want to go as an artist. I think I’m just doing my own thing.
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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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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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I’ve had so many insecurities, and am still getting over a lot.
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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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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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No human interaction, just killing dead parts of myself to make room for the new.
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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 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.
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My style in three words- youthful, sweet, and diverse.
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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 always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
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If I don’t see a music video to it while writing it, I just scrap it immediately. It’s very visual.
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Found euphoria in the comfort of my own home.
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I think, being emotional is this thing that people think you’re not strong. They don’t look at you as a strong person, and it’s weird ‘cuz honestly being emotional has nothing to do with your strength.
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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 see things that nobody else sees.
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Life boils down to two paths, love and fear. Which will you choose?
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I’m gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I’m feeling that day.
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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.
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