I definitely think it's cool being Puerto Rican and Dominican, but I feel it has no influence on my music. — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
Make sure this [music industry] is what you love to do, and you can't imagine doing anything else. — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I've always been super into photography and the visuals that support my music. — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
There's a heavy hip-hop influence in my music, some trap influence, but it's always lyrical. — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I look at music like an art form, so it's almost like painting for me, you know? — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
My whole mission in general, ever since I was fourteen, was to write music that would help people heal. — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
If I don't see a music video to it while writing it, I just scrap it immediately. It's very visual. — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I only wear vintage clothing. I'm pretty obsessed with things in the '60s, like fashion and music, too. — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I wanted people to understand that I have my own music, and I didn't want to sing other people's songs at shows. — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
Cry Baby is very close to my heart. I feel like I am her in a lot of ways. I want to… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I don't really think about what people think of my music, and how they listen to it or what my demographic is. — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I definitely have worked trying to create music that inspires girls to feel confident and strong, and feel like they can do… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I auditioned for 'The Voice' because I really wanted to try and figure out a way to get myself out there. I… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I have a few songs that I'm figuring out and writing. I'm still figuring out the whole concept and how it's gonna… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I listen to a lot of music. But I definitely haven't looked at an artist and like thought I want to have… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I feel it's my job as the artist who is making the music to pair it with visuals that I see in… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
[Doing music] is time consuming, will drain you, and stress you out at times. But in the end if you love doing… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I just think that pop music is very interesting in how it can reach so many people. I like that I can… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I like pop music because it can really affect a large amount of people and if I tell stories and spread messages… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
It's very hard to be an artist, on my first album, and I'm like asking for money for a music video for… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I don't like a lot of pop music. But I like the idea of pop music. — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I wanted to play my original music, but it was really hard because a lot of the people who would come out… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I'm not used to writing about happy emotions, I'm just used to pulling from my sad or angry - happy emotions are… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I love directing my music videos and writing video treatments, and I think it's all just because I love the visual aspect… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
Please understand that I make music to express myself, and if you know anything about me, you know that I'm nothing but… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
My two favorite parts of what I do are definitely writing the music and then writing and directing the videos to support… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I really loved taking photos when I was younger. I think my love for photography sparked my love for creating the visuals… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
Cry Baby is just a character in this world that I'm trying to create, and the music videos are really important to… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
It's just interesting how people relate my success when I would like to think that I worked my ass off for a… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I had been writing songs for awhile - since I was 14 - and playing guitar, but I never really knew how… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I think because "Dollhouse" was the first story that I put out. It was the first thing that people were able to… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I want my music to be treated as a book or a movie. It's not about the one single: it's about the… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
My music is like a baby pink frosted cake with sprinkles, but when you cut into it, there's a gooey, dark chocolate… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I always try, when I'm singing songs, to interpret them the way that I would've arranged them. I think about the melody… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I've always written the storyboards for the music videos, and it's been hard working with directors trying to get them to understand… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
My favorite performance would definitely be "Toxic," which was my blind audition song. It was the start of it all and it was a… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share
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… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share
The whole entire album is about Cry Baby, you know, being super insecure and kind of like going through her emotions until she finally… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share
I stay away from the title of 'role model.' I want to be a more realistic role model - not a perfect Barbie role… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share
I think that any female who gets asked if she's a feminist... it's silly... it's so interesting when people ask females if they're a… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share
There are obviously so many artists that are very inspiring, but I can't say that they like - that I have someone in mind… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share
I only wear vintage clothing. I'm pretty obsessed with things in the '60s, like fashion and music, too. — Melanie Martinez Copy Share
I'm happy that I don't have to do covers anymore, because that's not what I do. — Melanie Martinez Copy Share
To me, I absolutely cannot stand Twitter. I hate it more than anything. — Melanie Martinez Copy Share
So like what I want to do is connect all of my albums and make it tell a bigger kind of story. So the… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share
[Doing music] is time consuming, will drain you, and stress you out at times. But in the end if you love doing it, and… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share
I think honestly when I was younger I use to love going to carnivals in Long Island. I use to love carnival season; I… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share
I love Sia and how she hides her face. If I could pull off doing that, I totally would. — Melanie Martinez Copy Share
There's a heavy hip-hop influence in my music, some trap influence, but it's always lyrical. — Melanie Martinez Copy Share
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