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

I definitely love horror movies and all that for sure. — 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. — Melanie Martinez

I love Nicoletta Ceccoli , and I love Tim Burton movies. So those are like my biggest inspirations I think. — Melanie Martinez

Make sure this [music industry] is what you love to do, and you can’t imagine doing anything else. — Melanie Martinez

There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that. — Melanie Martinez

I never had a lot of friends growing up so having this insane amount of love and support really means a lot to me. — Melanie Martinez

I love Sia and how she hides her face. If I could pull off doing that, I totally would. — Melanie Martinez

I think honestly when I was younger I use to love going to carnivals in Long Island. I use to love carnival season; I would drive to every town going to carnivals. That was definitely a favorite memory. — 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. — Melanie Martinez

I was genuinely happy when I wrote that song [Training Wheels] and very in love. That’s a very rare emotion to evoke out of me. — Melanie Martinez

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. — Melanie Martinez

I’m happy that I get to work with people that I enjoy being around. It’s really cool when people understand and want to help your vision and are like rooting for you. I just, I love them a lot. — Melanie Martinez

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. — 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. — Melanie Martinez

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

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

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

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

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. — Melanie Martinez

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

I only wear vintage clothing. I’m pretty obsessed with things in the ’60s, like fashion and music, too. — Melanie Martinez

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. — Melanie Martinez

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

I think because ‘Dollhouse’ was the first story that I put out. It was the first thing that people were able to listen to and find the aesthetic of my music, so I figured we could use that as a title. — Melanie Martinez

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

On the show [the Voice] I obviously wasn’t allowed [singing my own original music], because it’s not that type of show. I think it’s really cool that I get to do my own thing now. — Melanie Martinez

I listen to a lot of music. But I definitely haven’t looked at an artist and like thought I want to have a song like this. — 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. — 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. — 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. — Melanie Martinez

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. — Melanie Martinez

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

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

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

Just because I’m an artist doesn’t mean I should be treated differently. — 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. — Melanie Martinez

I obviously have a different connection to each song in a different way, and they all mean something different to me. — Melanie Martinez

I’m glad I got to introduce myself to America by doing a Britney [Spears] song, haha! — Melanie Martinez

Even if the song meant a lot to me, I would still probably perform it live. — Melanie Martinez

I’ll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves. — Melanie Martinez

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. — Melanie Martinez

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. — Melanie Martinez

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. — Melanie Martinez

My favorite performance would definitely be ‘Toxic,’ which was my blind audition song. It was the start of it all and it was a song I had been covering before the show, so it was very dear to my heart. — Melanie Martinez

I’m pretty excited for people to listen to the story of each song. It’s definitely like a giant book with different stories in it. They are all very child–like but also a balance between light and dark. — Melanie Martinez

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

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

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. — Melanie Martinez

I’m just happy I got to express who I am as an artist and touch people’s hearts. — Melanie Martinez

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. — 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. — Melanie Martinez

If I don’t see a music video to it while writing it, I just scrap it immediately. It’s very visual. — 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. — 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. — 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. — Melanie Martinez

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 connect to Cry Baby, but I have some ideas, yes. — Melanie Martinez

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. — Melanie Martinez

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. — 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. — 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. — Melanie Martinez

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. — Melanie Martinez

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

Cry Baby is a character so I think that the next album is going to be about a specific thing in her life or another place in her world. It’s going to be a bit deeper into a bigger picture. — Melanie Martinez