Melanie Martinez Quotes

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

Whenever I write, I only write about what I know or what I have experienced or feeling.

I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.

Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.

Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

I'm a firm believer in putting your experiences in your writing, of bleeding into the page.

The biggest thing that I hope people take away when they listen to my music is that they feel that there is an outlet being presented that allows them to be more authentic and for them to be more honest in their own lives.

I just write about how I'm feeling at the time. If I feel like being cheeky and a bit straight up and a bit aggressive, you'll hear that in my music. If I feel like being very vulnerable and opening up about something personal, you'll hear that, too.

If you're writing about what you're feeling about something, then you're in good stead.

Because I write what I feel the most heavy about. So if there is one day of the week when I feel completely crushed by existential dread, I'll end up writing about it, not the great day I had at the park with my friends. I hope it resonates with people - and it does, with some.

You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel.

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings.

I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day and the sentence had no FEELING. Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

It's just writing about things, feelings, not that we're dark or depressed...just as much as anyone else is.

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.

What I regretted in La Nausee was not to have put myself completely into the thing. I remained outside my hero's disease, protected by my neurosis which, through writing, gave me happiness.

Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.

I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.

I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it.