Top 147 Quotes & Sayings by Melanie Martinez
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Last updated on December 3, 2024.
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.
I'm not necessarily a happy singer. That's not who I am as an artist.
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.
I definitely think it's cool being Puerto Rican and Dominican, but I feel it has no influence on my music.
I feel it's my job as the artist who is making the music to pair it with visuals that I see in my head while writing the music in the first place.
I stay away from the title of 'role model.' I want to be a more realistic role model - not a perfect Barbie role model.
I only wear vintage clothing. I'm pretty obsessed with things in the '60s, like fashion and music, too.
Remember that I am a human.
Please understand that I make music to express myself, and if you know anything about me, you know that I'm nothing but honest.
When I started, I was very unsure of who I was. There were a lot of things in the songs that I didn't realize I was saying. But more and more, it fell into place... I got more comfortable in my skin.
I have to stop eating so much grilled cheese and chocolate chip cookies and start really working on everything!
I really like milk. I'm a dairy queen.
I want to put out as many albums as I can before I die.
Growing up, I always took things too personal and was very emotional, and I got made fun of for it.
I think that 'Cry Baby' came from a nickname I was called as a kid.
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.
I'm happy that I don't have to do covers anymore, because that's not what I do.
I always try, when I'm singing songs, to interpret them the way that I would've arranged them. I think about the melody first, and then I pull out my guitar and start singing 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.
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 parents were super strict, so I didn't have a lot of freedom to hang out at parties or anything like that. I didn't get invited, and I didn't have many friends.
To me, I absolutely cannot stand Twitter. I hate it more than anything.
I'm a perfectionist, and even if something comes out great, it's still not perfect, you know?
Everyone is allowed to be vulnerable. I think women and men and dogs and cats and ants and aliens can all express themselves and be vulnerable.
I used music as therapy and embraced being a cry baby.
I'm really stubborn, and I'm okay with that.
I always have felt that I was six years old.
I didn't have any real idea that I was going to be an artist; I had no idea what that meant.
I like scaring myself.
I went to the carnival a lot. The carousel was my favorite ride as a kid.
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'll always cling to these little girl dresses at vintage shops, and I can never wear them because they're so tiny!
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 wanted people to understand that I have my own music, and I didn't want to sing other people's songs at shows.
I would love to collab with The Weeknd, for sure.
With 'Pity Party,' it's the first time seeing my vision come to life in front of my face. I'm super happy about it.
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.
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 wrote about scenarios that I was going through and then disguised them.
I have a song called 'Training Wheels,' and it's about being in love with someone and taking it to the next level by taking off the training wheels.
It's really hard for me to finish a song unless I have a strong visual in my head while I'm writing it.
It's one thing to ask for a picture, but to just take a picture of me is kinda weird, guys.
I don't like a lot of pop music. But I like the idea of pop music.
I want to encourage people to be themselves and express themselves however they want.
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 feminist. Of course every female wants to be equal!
My music is like a baby pink frosted cake with sprinkles, but when you cut into it, there's a gooey, dark chocolate center.
I always cling to things that remind me of being a kid again.
I love Sia and how she hides her face. If I could pull off doing that, I totally would.
I grew up on Long Island. It was pretty normal.
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've always been super into photography and the visuals that support my music.
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.
The real me is this deep, kind of somber person. I can't really help that.
I look at music like an art form, so it's almost like painting for me, you know?
My whole mission in general, ever since I was fourteen, was to write music that would help people heal.
I believe everyone should be equal, and we should all love and support each other and express ourselves the way we want to express ourselves and be whoever we want. That's my motto.
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 liked singing and just took a chance with it.
'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.
Eventually, I started writing down a bunch of titles that related to childhood themes and would pair it with an adult situation that either I was going through or someone else in my life was going through.
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