"I'm probably the most proud of "Mrs. Potato Head," because I had that idea in my head for so long, and I tried writing that song one time and I just couldn't tell the story the way I wanted to, and I couldn't figure it out."

-- Melanie Martinez

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“It's not easy to date when you're hefty. Besides I like feeling thin because it makes me feel amorous.”

Source : "Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger's Weight-Loss Secrets". Interview with Karen Borsari, www.shape.com.
“...Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out.”
“One day I would love to do rock a gig on the moon - how rad would that be? Isn't Richard Branson flying planes to outer space? Motley Crue could be the first band to play on the moon.”
“I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.”
“There is no telling what is going to happen in the music business in the next few years, hours, minutes, seconds. Giving artists the chance to produce and distribute their own material is great, very empowering. The technological changes that are happening so rapidly now, amongst all the opinions, are in truth, only two things, inevitable and unstoppable.”
“The closest Ive come to knowing myself is in losing myself. Thats why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.”
“Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams. It can assert irrevocable tenure there. The opening bars, the hammer-beat accelerando of Edith Piaf's Je ne regrette rien - the text is infantile, the tune stentorian, and the politics which enlisted the song unattractive - tempt every nerve in me, touch the bone with a cold burn and draw me into God knows what infidelities to reason, each time I hear the song, and hear it, uncalled for, recurrent inside me.”

Source : George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.210, Faber & Faber
“My weight and my pant size are the absolute last thing I'm concerned about. People who talk and judge pregnant women's weight need to get a life!”

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