I go with what I like and I generally just cling to things that are pastel and remind me of being a little kid. It’s just what it is right now, but I go through phases.
MELANIE MARTINEZIt’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.
More Melanie Martinez Quotes
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The flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them, away.
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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 love Nicoletta Ceccoli , and I love Tim Burton movies. So those are like my biggest inspirations I think.
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I definitely fall in love quickly, and I’m very in love with being in love. But it is hard for me to write about love.
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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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Found euphoria in the comfort of my own home.
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Loving yourself + others is a magically addictive sensation.
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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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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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I don’t really think about what people think of my music, and how they listen to it or what my demographic is.
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Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist.
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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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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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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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I also made a lot of really great friends on that show [the Voice], so that’s one of the most important things that I’ve taken out of that experience.
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