Melanie Martinez Quotes

I think when I first started discovering I could write songs, I was so naive. And it was after I got broken up with and had my heart sliced up into a bunch of little pieces that I was like, "I'm going to say this." I didn't even know how to play guitar.

Write what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind. Sometimes they are the hardest things to write, but those are often the things that are worth investigating by you specifically. . .

I started dealing with my emotional pain by writing. I always had been a writer, but just not songs. Saying things on paper that I would never, ever say, and saying things to myself, admitting things to myself, about myself and my personality, just putting it on paper, is how I deal with emotional pain.

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.

It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn't realize what a rage I was in.

It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.

I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.

I just write about what makes me sad, and then when I write, I hear myself. It's like therapy, where I write something sad and then I make it happier or hopeful.

With music, it's a therapy for me. So whatever I'm dealing with at the time, I talk about it when I rap.

I don’t have a problem baring my emotions in music. That’s one of the reasons I’m glad to have music in my life. I’m pretty resilient as far as being a human being. A lot of songs write themselves.

It's pretty much rock-'n'-roll. I sit down and start feeling stuff and writing.

One thing that I believe is that every time I write something, I am taking the time to celebrate. Even if I am writing a sad story or an angry poem, I am still giving those stories my time and attention.

I'm gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I'm feeling that day.

I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was a teenager, but now because I write about it all in my songs, that's what I'm really doing.

I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down.

I'd do a song in the studio and it would explain everything I'm going through so perfectly that when I went home and I felt down I could listen to that to make me feel better. It's a documentation of my life. I think it's just important to put it out there.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven't a clue.