A biography for Melanie Martinezhasn’t been written yet.
“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 had been writing songs for awhile - since I was 14 - and playing guitar, but I never really knew how to go about making an actual career.”
“I got a lot of very bad hate on social media from some people from my school. I think people thought I changed because they saw me on TV. They weren't close enough to know that I was still the same human being... When I walked at graduation, I got booed. It was kind of stupid.”
“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.”
“I have a song called 'Training Wheels,' and it's about being in love with someone and taking it to the next level by taking off the training wheels.”
“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.”
“I auditioned for 'The Voice' because I really wanted to try and figure out a way to get myself out there. I really couldn't imagine doing anything else - music was the only thing that I really clung to.”
“I wanted people to understand that I have my own music, and I didn't want to sing other people's songs at shows.”
“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.”
“I always try, when I'm singing songs, to interpret them the way that I would've arranged them. I think about the melody first, and then I pull out my guitar and start singing it.”
“I've always been super into photography and the visuals that support my music.”
“When I was 16, I was watching '101 Dalmatians,' and my mom never let me bleach my hair, so I told her I was going to dye my hair like Cruella De Vil; she didn't believe me. I came home with my hair like this, and she didn't talk to me for, like, a week. It was really hilarious.”
“I used music as therapy and embraced being a cry baby.”
“I'm not necessarily a happy singer. That's not who I am as an artist.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I want to put out as many albums as I can before I die.”
“It's really hard for me to finish a song unless I have a strong visual in my head while I'm writing it.”
“I didn't have any real idea that I was going to be an artist; I had no idea what that meant.”
“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.”