Melanie Martinez Quotes

When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

From a place of truth, I think artists or actors have to be real with what they're doing.

I always write what feels really true and honest and me.

I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it's stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.

I think what's captivating about me on the microphone is my honesty.

If you're going to be transparent, you're going to have to let the music come that wants to come.

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

Music to me is about being honest, and it's what I've always pictured music as. I don't see the point of expressing yourself if you are going to be cryptic about it.

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.

The art of life is to show your hand.

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.

All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.

In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.

Anytime I hear songs that are so honest, whether they make the person who's singing it look good or not, there's a level of honesty that resonates with people.

The most personal thing about me is my music. The most honest, pure thing in my whole life.

I feel as though there are things that I'm trying to do - you know, capturing truthfully some aspect of human experience - and I'm trying really hard not to be fake. And in writing, as in life, it's harder than you think.

I feel it's much easier to be honest or be myself in songs when I'm playing. That's why I felt, 'You know, I'm going to write the truth.'

It's just about being honest. I listen to a lot of stuff that's out there, some of which I wrote, and I'm like, 'Where is that? Where's the honesty?' So that's what I want to get to in my music now.

There's the dual challenge of wanting to speak from an authentic place, and then being able to be honest about it. Even in the most mannered art, I think that's what people value, is a voice that comes from a real place.

What's the point of a song if you can't be honest?

I think I have great responsibility, and when I do my music, when I try to relate to my audience, I just try to do it in an honest fashion, you know, just try to be as earnest as possible and sometime it may be self-effacing. Sometimes it may be finger-pointing. Sometimes it may be beautiful, and sometime it may be ugly.

People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling.

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.