Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist.
MELANIE MARTINEZIf you can’t handle a heart like mine, don’t waste your time with me.
More Melanie Martinez Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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It’s just weird because like when I was writing Cry Baby I like the only thing that I was thinking about, when writing it, was the concepts and the visuals, and the way that it sounded kind of happened naturally.
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Is it easier to pretend we are as perfect as the stars above?
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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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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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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’ll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.
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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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If you can’t handle a heart like mine, don’t waste your time with me.
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I definitely have worked trying to create music that inspires girls to feel confident and strong, and feel like they can do anything.
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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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