I love Nicoletta Ceccoli , and I love Tim Burton movies. So those are like my biggest inspirations I think.
MELANIE MARTINEZCry Baby wasn’t necessarily a baby theme but I understand what they’re saying. So like, Cry Baby is definitely a remaining character throughout all of my albums.
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I see things that nobody else sees.
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I was always hard on myself for taking things too personally.
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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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Life boils down to two paths, love and fear. Which will you choose?
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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 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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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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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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Indulging in the pleasures of creation.
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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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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 see things that nobody else sees.
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I obviously have a different connection to each song in a different way, and they all mean something different to me.
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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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Loving yourself + others is a magically addictive sensation.
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