Melanie Martinez
Melanie Martinez

I don't like a lot of pop music. But I like the idea of pop music.

Melanie Martinez
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
Melanie Martinez

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

Melanie Martinez
Melanie Martinez

It's really hard for me to finish a song unless I have a strong visual in my head while I'm writing it.

Melanie Martinez
Melanie Martinez

To me, I absolutely cannot stand Twitter. I hate it more than anything.

Melanie Martinez
Melanie Martinez

The way that I dress is the way I've always dressed. The way I've eaten is how I've always eaten. I dress like a 5-year-old, and I eat like a 5-year-old.

Melanie Martinez
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
Melanie Martinez

I've always written the storyboards for the music videos, and it's been hard working with directors trying to get them to understand what I'm thinking.

Melanie Martinez
Melanie Martinez

There's a heavy hip-hop influence in my music, some trap influence, but it's always lyrical.

Melanie Martinez
Melanie Martinez

I think that 'Cry Baby' came from a nickname I was called as a kid.

Melanie Martinez
Melanie Martinez

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.

Melanie Martinez
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
Melanie Martinez

It's one thing to ask for a picture, but to just take a picture of me is kinda weird, guys.

Melanie Martinez
Melanie Martinez

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.

Melanie Martinez
Melanie Martinez

I want to put out as many albums as I can before I die.

Melanie Martinez
Melanie Martinez

Cry Baby is very close to my heart. I feel like I am her in a lot of ways. I want to continue making music from her perspective.

Melanie Martinez
Melanie Martinez

I liked singing and just took a chance with it.

Melanie Martinez
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
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
Melanie Martinez

I'm happy that I don't have to do covers anymore, because that's not what I do.