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Everyone wants to be good but good is only what we’re taught to perceive.

Melanie Martinez

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

Confidence Help People Writing
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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Feeling Love Music Proud Time Work Yourself
I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
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Myself Session Sound Toy
I 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.
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Celebration Honesty Love Memories Thinking Travel Young
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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Journey Knowledge Learning Lesson Ourselves Represent Strength Wisdom
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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Enjoyment Happiness Help Love People Vision Work
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.
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Family Home Inspirational Mess Perfection Toy
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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Creation Music Myself See Visual Writing
It’s just interesting how people relate my success when I would like to think that I worked my ass off for a reason and that it’s about the music and not because I was on a TV show.
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Music Myself People Reason Success Thinking Work
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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Big Character Life Photograph Place Thinking World
Is it easier to pretend we are as perfect as the stars above?
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Easy Perfection Pretend Stars Teaching
Even if the song meant a lot to me, I would still probably perform it live.
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Myself Performance Song
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.
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Album Insecurity Music Myself Represent Start Time Writing
I just don’t really get to watch a lot of movies, like recently at least I haven’t been able to but I did watch The Exorcist for the first time ever, recently, and it didn’t scare me like I thought it was gonna scare me.
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Movie Myself Scare Time
Love starts inside of you.
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Love One Liner Start Yourself
I’m insane, I’m emotional, but I’d rather be that than a robot. So that’s definitely something that I wanted to get out there. Especially with Cry Baby’s story, because the album is about Cry Baby but I realized that me and her went through the same change.
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Change Emotional Herself Myself Sanity

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