Marina And The Diamonds Quotes

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

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

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

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

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 want to live in real life. It's too harsh, too brutal.

I quite like dark humor.

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

I feel like artists that are always quite sad in real life always make really happy music, and artists who are really bouncy and bubbly always make really sad music.

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.

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.

I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the world.

I'm obsessed with the mess that's America.

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.

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

Drink to forget; don't forget to drink.

You can’t have peace without a war.

I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star.

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.'

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

I want blood, guts, and chocolate cake.

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.

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 felt connected with Madonna from a very young age. I think I share a lot of qualities from her personality. I really respect her.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I'm a very, very disciplined person.

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 want to provoke people with thoughts, not by taking my clothes off. It's time to move on from Stripperville.

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

Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it. That's human nature to believe that beauty is everything.

I didn't even listen to any music until I was 19, really. I just wanted to be famous. But I didn't say it to anyone because I was really embarrassed at the thought.