I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
MELANIE MARTINEZI’ve had so many insecurities, and am still getting over a lot.
More Melanie Martinez Quotes
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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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I love Nicoletta Ceccoli , and I love Tim Burton movies. So those are like my biggest inspirations I think.
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I’m probably the most proud of “Mrs. Potato Head,” because I had that idea in my head for so long, and I tried writing that song one time and I just couldn’t tell the story the way I wanted to, and I couldn’t figure it out.
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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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My style in three words- youthful, sweet, and diverse.
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I’m glad I got to introduce myself to America by doing a Britney [Spears] song, haha!
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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’ll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.
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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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Love starts inside of you.
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There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.
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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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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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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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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’m not used to writing about happy emotions, I’m just used to pulling from my sad or angry – happy emotions are very hard for me to portray in music.
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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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Make sure this [music industry] is what you love to do, and you can’t imagine doing anything else.
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Even if the song meant a lot to me, I would still probably perform it live.
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I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
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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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Just wanna be held once in a Blue Moon.
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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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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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Cry Baby is just a character in this world that I’m trying to create, and the music videos are really important to me, and I’ve fought to obviously get all of them approved.
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