Quotes from Melanie Martinez

I've always been a fan of telling honest stories.

I went to the carnival a lot. The carousel was my favorite ride as a kid.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 stay away from the title of 'role model.' I want to be a more realistic role model - not a perfect Barbie role model.

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.

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

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.

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

Growing up, I always took things too personal and was very emotional, and I got made fun of for it.

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

Remember that I am a human.

I always cling to things that remind me of being a kid again.

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 would love to collab with The Weeknd, for sure.

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.

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.

I'm just happy I got to express who I am as an artist and touch people's hearts.

I definitely love horror movies and all that for sure.