Marina and the Diamonds Quotes

I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit, in that I find my identity in being an artist.

Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star has always been blonde.

I have sold my soul. I would sell my soul, if I could have it all.

You can’t have peace without a war.

I think I actually did write about love because I kind of had a fear of it, like we all do, nobody wants to get hurt.

People are complex, and I think it's a huge element of what I do, because you have to balance out the fact that you talk about quite serious things with a sense of irony and tongue-in-cheek humor. That's my personality as well.

Touring can be tough; the crew and I travel everywhere by a big pink bus, and live in petrol stations.

Fake it, fake your confidence until it's real. I think it's a good way to live most of your life.

My biggest fear is love and getting hurt in love but still believing.

Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you've done to other people.

[Being in the States] is almost like being on a holiday. It's kind of annoying because everyone's like "Oh, you're so obsessed with America," but it's not really that. I just really enjoy being here - I'm not the first British artist to make music here and be inspired by the country.

I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and it's my favorite way of figuring an outfit.

I love pop music because you can really see what's currently happening in society.

Electra Heart is the antithesis of everything I stand for. And the point of introducing her and building a concept around her is that she stands for the corrupt side of American ideology, and basically that's the corruption of yourself. My worst fear - that's anyone's worst fear - is to lose myself and become an empty person. And that happens a lot when you're very ambitious.

I don't want to live in real life. It's too harsh, too brutal.

I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't warm up, and I don't know how other singers do it.

I'm vulnerable, I'm vulnerable. I am not a robot.

I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like someone who observes it, and I can't ever imagine being like that.

I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so I like kitten heels occasionally because I can move around a bit easier, but pointy-toed pumps are very elongating.

Drink to forget; don't forget to drink.

I feel like I'm the worst, so I always act like I'm the best.

I love 40's-60's fashion because it suits the type of figure that I have the most, so that's what I always go for. I won't change!

I don't really know how to live my life, just like lots of other people don't. I guess you just learn along the way.

Lots of narcissistic people have helped lots of other people with their music. That's such a narcissistic thing to say! Ha ha!

When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playing live, you interact with people and you feel the energy in the room. When the crowd is going crazy, that definitely impacts your vocal performance. I prefer to sing live.

I've really come into my own as an artist. I'm much more sure of my identity and understand it much better, and have accepted the fact that I like to jump around a lot in terms of who I am and what kind of music I create, and that it is okay - in fact, that is my main identity, the fact that I do that.

Success, I've come to realise, is fleeting so you shouldn't value it too much.

I think some people just have an innate musical ability, and I'm lucky enough to be one of those people.

I was always very creative. I was always into acting and dancing when I was younger.

I'm a very, very disciplined person.

You could say that my life's a mess. But, I'm still looking pretty in this dress.

I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people.

I quite like dark humor.

I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so transformative.

Obviously when you're a teen you have no money, so you make, like, three outfits out of one dress. You're like, 'OK cut the arms here. Alright: New party, cut them to here.'

Sometimes you feel amazing about life and other times you just feel fat and depressed, so I think it's good to be honest about that and to make light of it, I think humour is important, nobody's perfect.

I turned off my Google alerts in 2009 as I learnt that following yourself on the Internet very quickly becomes unhealthy.

If you believe something enough, it comes true eventually, and that's so true even with lies. If you tell yourself a lie, after a few years you'll think it's true.

When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. It makes you more inward and needy. Gross.

I don't think I'm an instantaneous act the whole world will love in one second - but that's how I've felt about bands I love.

If you don't want to have your private life splashed everywhere, why go to the restaurants and the places you know you're going to be photographed?

I'm interested in how identity is transient. How do we know who we really are, when different situations and environments dictate how we behave? I'm interested in the role we all play. We spend our whole lives becoming ourselves when we are born as no one else.

I think each human being wants to make their mark on the world in whatever way they can, and maybe everyone has a slight egomaniac inside of them.

There's no one particular road that will lead you to success. I think everybody will find it differently.

That's when you know you really fit with someone - when you can just sit there and not do anything. Kind of ignoring each other.

Hollywood infected my brain and I really valued the wrong things in life, but I changed dramatically.

What I've learnt about artists over the years is, artists are usually the opposite to their music.

I'm not going to lie; I'm not a huge remix person.