“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 'cause honestly being emotional has nothing to do with your strength.” StrongStrengthEmotional Author:Melanie Martinez
“You think I'm psycho, you think I'm gone Tell the psychiatrist something is wrong Over the bend, entirely bonkers You like me best when I'm off my rocker Tell you a secret, I'm not alarmed So what if I'm crazy? The best people are.” SongYeahCool Author:Melanie Martinez
“Blood still stains when the sheets are washed Sex don't sleep when the lights are off Kids are still depressed when you dress them up And syrup is still syrup in a sippy cup He's still dead when you're done with the bottle Of course it's a corpse that you keep in the cradle Kids are still depressed when you dress them up Syrup is still syrup in a sippy cup” RealityMusicBloodLyricsDepressed Author:Melanie Martinez
“I think that every decision I make in my life is based off of an emotion - and it definitely hurts me in some situations, and helps in some situations, like obviously writing and stuff is my favourite thing to do because I get to use all of my emotions and express them in that way.” ThinkingWayWritingHelpingUseLife IsStuffHurtDecisionEmotionSituationThings To DoFavouriteHurt MeFavourite Things Author:Melanie Martinez
“I have definitely noticed I am very passionate. So if I'm fighting with someone I'll be SO super loud and aggressive, and make sure that my point is heard.” IfsFightingHeardPassionateLoudAggressive Author:Melanie Martinez
“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.” PeopleThinkingLooksPersonsStrongEmotionalHonestlyCuzNot StrongStrong Person Author:Melanie Martinez
“There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.” PeopleWholeLove IsKnowingWhole Life Author:Melanie Martinez
“A lot of people say if you can't love yourself, then you can't love others. It's always different, but I definitely have loved a lot in my life.” PeopleIfsDifferentLove YouLove Yourself Author:Melanie Martinez
“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.” WritingHardFallFalling In LoveBeing In Love Author:Melanie Martinez
“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.” WritingHardUsedEmotionAngryPulling Author:Melanie Martinez
“I definitely feel like if I put out a song that was like me being super vulnerable, people would look as me as weak. I don't know if that has to do with me being a girl, or if that really has to do with anything, but I'm sure.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsLooksSongGirlWeakLike MeVulnerableBeing A Girl Author:Melanie Martinez
“I definitely have worked trying to create music that inspires girls to feel confident and strong, and feel like they can do anything.” FeelsTryingGirlStrongCan DoInspire Author:Melanie Martinez
“I'll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.” PeopleFeelsWritingHelpingSongStrive Author:Melanie Martinez
“I've had so many insecurities, and am still getting over a lot.” StillsInsecurity Author:Melanie Martinez
“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.” WorldTryingImportantCharacterCryThis WorldBabyVideoApprovedCry Baby Author:Melanie Martinez
“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.” WantFeelsFirstsHardArtistSongBattlePicksAskingAlbumsVideoAsking For Money Author:Melanie Martinez
“I think that the next album is specifically for sure from Cry Baby's perspective, but it's not necessarily about her family-life or her love-life, or anything like that, it's more about this place in this town. The place has different characters in there, so in every song there's gonna be different characters that appear.” ThinkingDifferentCharacterSongNextCryPerspectiveBabyTownsAlbumsLove LifeFamily LifeDifferent CharactersCry Baby Author:Melanie Martinez
“I'm obsessed with the venue and the people so it's going to be really fun.The last couple of tours I didn't have anything like that because of the budget, so I'm super excited because this is really going to bring the album to life.” PeopleLastsFunCoupleAlbumsExcitedBudgetsObsessedVenues Author:Melanie Martinez
“I obviously have a different connection to each song in a different way, and they all mean something different to me.” WayMeanDifferentSongConnectionsDifferent Ways Author:Melanie Martinez
“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.” WayWritingLongIdeasStoriesWantedSongFiguresProudOne TimePotatoes Author:Melanie Martinez
“Eventually I realized that Cry Baby was a character that was based off of me, and that we had a lot of similarities.” CharacterCryBabyI RealizedSimilarityCry Baby Author:Melanie Martinez
“"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.” WholeHomeHousePerfectInspiredMessed UpDollhousesEdward Scissorhands Author:Melanie Martinez
“If you say something that is a little unsafe to say but you feel strongly and passionate about it, a lot of people can attack you and call you a bad role model just because they don't agree with your views, but in reality we're all different and we're all unique in our own way and we all have different thoughts.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsLittlesDifferentRealityViewsRolesUniqueModelsAgreePassionateRole ModelsUnsafe Author:Melanie Martinez
“Just because I'm an artist doesn't mean I should be treated differently.” ShouldMeanArtistTreated Author:Melanie Martinez
“Basically it's the idea of celebrities being in the spotlight and just because you think that they should be perfect, that they're still human and they still have flaws just like everyone else. So that was the real meaning behind "Dollhouse", at least how it related to me because it's something I was annoyed with at the time.” ThinkingShouldHumansStillsIdeasRealPerfectBehindsRelatedFlawsAnnoyedSpotlightDollhouses Author:Melanie Martinez
“I've had a lot of people come up to me after shows and tell me that "Dollhouse" really helped them with whatever they were going through with their families. I thought that was really amazing, that it could mean one thing for me but another thing for someone else.” PeopleMeanShowsOne ThingCome UpReally AmazingDollhouses Author:Melanie Martinez
“When I first started writing the album, "Cry Baby" was a song that I really wanted to write because it represented all of these personal insecurities that I had for a long time.” WritingFirstsLongWantedSongCryBabyLong TimeAlbumsInsecurityCry Baby Author:Melanie Martinez
“I'm insane, I'm emotional, but I'd rather be that than a robot. So that's definitely something that I wanted to get out there. Especially with Cry Baby's story, because the album is about Cry Baby but I realized that me and her went through the same change.” StoriesWantedCryEmotionalBabyAlbumsI RealizedInsaneRobotsCry Baby Author:Melanie Martinez
“A lot of people relate my success now with The Voice, and it has nothing to do with that. I've definitely worked my ass off for a year afterwards trying to get that off of my forehead. If anything, it's actually harder to get labels to look at you when you come off a show like that, and it's harder for people to look at you like a real artist.” PeopleIfsTryingYearsLooksRealShowsArtistVoiceHarderAssLabelsRelateForeheadsReal Artists Author:Melanie Martinez
“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.” PeopleThinkingReasonShowsInterestingTvsAssRelateTv Shows Author:Melanie Martinez
“I'm always going to hear people make that connection and I've just accepted it. It's alright. I'm just happy that I get to do my own thing now. I learned a lot from the show [the Voice] as far as being in the TV world and being in front of the camera, which is really great because I'm not as nervous in front of the camera as I was before.” PeopleWorldShowsVoiceMy OwnFrontsTvsConnectionsCamerasAcceptedNervousReally GreatAlright Author:Melanie Martinez
“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.” MadeImportantShowsVoiceTakenImportant ThingsReally GreatGreat Friend Author:Melanie Martinez
“I just don't really get to watch a lot of movies, like recently at least I haven't been able to but I did watch The Exorcist for the first time ever, recently, and it didn't scare me like I thought it was gonna scare me.” FirstsAbleWatchesHavensFirst TimeScareExorcist Author:Melanie Martinez
“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.” ThinkingWayWritingKindHappenedCryBabyConceptsVisualsCry Baby Author:Melanie Martinez
“I don't really think about what people think of my music, and how they listen to it or what my demographic is.” PeopleThinkingDemographics Author:Melanie Martinez
“I'm gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I'm feeling that day.” WritingFeelingsEmotionHellPersonal Experiences Author:Melanie Martinez
“It's like visual is super important to me. So if I am writing a song, like, I have to have the title.” IfsWritingImportantSongTitlesVisuals Author:Melanie Martinez
“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.” FirstsI CanEndsWholeStoriesMake SenseTitles Author:Melanie Martinez
“If I don't see a music video to it while writing it, I just scrap it immediately. It's very visual.” IfsWritingVideoVisualsScrap Author:Melanie Martinez
“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.” StillsUsedArtistStuffMy OwnPhotographyUsed To Be Author:Melanie Martinez
“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.” ThinkingWritingWellsAspectVideoVisualsTreatment Author:Melanie Martinez
“Cry 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.” CharacterCryBabyAlbumsThemeCry Baby Author:Melanie Martinez
“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.” WantFirstsKindStoriesBiggerAlbumsFocusedLove LifeFamily Life Author:Melanie Martinez
“The Cry Baby character is so, like, based off of myself that it just really is just from personal experience. And when I was younger I was called a cry baby and made fun of for being super emotional and taking things way to personal.” WayMadeCharacterFunCryEmotionalBabyPersonal ExperiencesCry Baby Author:Melanie Martinez
“And still as an adult like I do as well, you know what I mean like I literally just cried in the first interview that I had today. Like, I'm just a very emotional human.” KnowsFirstsHumansWellsMeanStillsTodayEmotionalAdultsInterviewsCried Author:Melanie Martinez
“The whole entire album is about Cry Baby, you know, being super insecure and kind of like going through her emotions until she finally realizes that she's comfortable with how crazy and insane she is and I think that I've made the exact same kind of progression , and the growth...and I don't know, like I feel like I've definitely grown into who I am and, like, I think Cry Baby is just me.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsKindMadeWholeGrowthRealizingEmotionCrazyCryBabyComfortableAlbumsWho I AmInsaneInsecureProgressionCry Baby Author:Melanie Martinez
