The flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them, away.
MELANIE MARTINEZI’ve had so many insecurities, and am still getting over a lot.
More Melanie Martinez Quotes
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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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Make sure this [music industry] is what you love to do, and you can’t imagine doing anything else.
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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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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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I’m very, very in touch with my emotions.
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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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I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
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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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I see things that nobody else sees.
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It’s very hard to be an artist, on my first album, and I’m like asking for money for a music video for every song – it’s so hard to do. You have to pick your battles for sure, but I definitely want – and I’ve always worked to make it all connect – for all of it to feel cohesive.
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The title is the first thing that I have. Then when I have that title, I have to make sure that the title is like, so I have to make sure I can tell a whole story from that one title and like make sure that it, from beginning to end it makes sense.
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Loving yourself + others is a magically addictive sensation.
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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 like pop music because it can really affect a large amount of people and if I tell stories and spread messages that I think are really important for people to be aware of, I would want it to be on the biggest platform and I feel like pop is that. I use it as a way to tell stories.
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There is a certain level of patience you have to have with yourself to get to the finish line.
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