Top 45 Melanie Martinez Quotes

To me, I absolutely cannot stand Twitter. I hate it more than anything.

I would love to collab with The Weeknd, for sure.

I was always called a cry baby, and I was one. I cried a lot as a child. In fact, I still cry a few times a day. I’m still a cry baby.

I want my music to be treated as a book or a movie. It’s not about the one single: it’s about the bigger picture.

Once I was done making my album ‘Cry Baby,’ I knew I wanted to make a vintage-inspired baby bottle perfume.

I got a lot of very bad hate on social media from some people from my school. I think people thought I changed because they saw me on TV. They weren’t close enough to know that I was still the same human being… When I walked at graduation, I got booed. It was kind of stupid.

I think if you’re going to cover a song, you should definitely take it apart and put it back together as if you wrote it. I don’t think you should sing it the same way that the artist sang it – that’s kind of pointless.

I look at music like an art form, so it’s almost like painting for me, you know?

I’ve always written the storyboards for the music videos, and it’s been hard working with directors trying to get them to understand what I’m thinking.

I’m not necessarily a happy singer. That’s not who I am as an artist.

Cry Baby is very close to my heart. I feel like I am her in a lot of ways. I want to continue making music from her perspective.

I had been writing songs for awhile – since I was 14 – and playing guitar, but I never really knew how to go about making an actual career.

I want to encourage people to be themselves and express themselves however they want.

Please understand that I make music to express myself, and if you know anything about me, you know that I’m nothing but honest.

I auditioned for ‘The Voice’ because I really wanted to try and figure out a way to get myself out there. I really couldn’t imagine doing anything else – music was the only thing that I really clung to.

There’s a heavy hip-hop influence in my music, some trap influence, but it’s always lyrical.

I wanted people to understand that I have my own music, and I didn’t want to sing other people’s songs at shows.

I really loved taking photos when I was younger. I think my love for photography sparked my love for creating the visuals to support my music.

I used music as therapy and embraced being a cry baby.

I definitely think it’s cool being Puerto Rican and Dominican, but I feel it has no influence on my music.

I want to put out as many albums as I can before I die.

I didn’t have any real idea that I was going to be an artist; I had no idea what that meant.

When I’m done with my last album, I want to make a movie with Tim Burton telling the story of all of the albums connected. That’s my biggest dream.

I don’t like a lot of pop music. But I like the idea of pop music.

I think that ‘Cry Baby’ came from a nickname I was called as a kid.

My music is like a baby pink frosted cake with sprinkles, but when you cut into it, there’s a gooey, dark chocolate center.

Working on this album has been very emotional and super personal, and creating this character ‘Cry Baby’ helped me deal with my own insecurities.

The real me is this deep, kind of somber person. I can’t really help that.

My two favorite parts of what I do are definitely writing the music and then writing and directing the videos to support each song. As well as doing my own makeup and styling for the videos.

I really like milk. I’m a dairy queen.

The way that I dress is the way I’ve always dressed. The way I’ve eaten is how I’ve always eaten. I dress like a 5-year-old, and I eat like a 5-year-old.

‘Cry Baby’ is like this fairytale version of me. A lot of it is based on real events, and some of it is made up to make it more whimsical.

It’s one thing to ask for a picture, but to just take a picture of me is kinda weird, guys.

When I was 16, I was watching ‘101 Dalmatians,’ and my mom never let me bleach my hair, so I told her I was going to dye my hair like Cruella De Vil; she didn’t believe me. I came home with my hair like this, and she didn’t talk to me for, like, a week. It was really hilarious.

My whole mission in general, ever since I was fourteen, was to write music that would help people heal.

Remember that I am a human.

Part of the problem with America is that letting go of emotions is viewed as a weakness, but it’s my strength. That enabled me to write my songs.

It’s really hard for me to finish a song unless I have a strong visual in my head while I’m writing it.

I had a lot of Barbies growing up, and a lot of porcelain dolls, but I was scared of them. I was so scared of them, I would try to turn their head away and would make my mom take them out of my room.

I liked singing and just took a chance with it.

The behind-the-scenes kind of process at TV, especially live television – that was super scary, but I think it’s made me more comfortable now. If I ever have to go on live TV, I at least remember what it was like when I was 16.

I wanted to play my original music, but it was really hard because a lot of the people who would come out to the shows found out about me through ‘The Voice’ and wanted to hear covers.

I’ve always been super into photography and the visuals that support my music.

I’m a perfectionist, and even if something comes out great, it’s still not perfect, you know?

I grew up on Long Island. It was pretty normal.