Marina and the Diamonds famous quotes

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

#Makeup #Thinking #Artist

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.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Artist #Who I Am #Identity

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

#Real #Thinking #Fake

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.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Thinking #People #Personality

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.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Lying #Believe #Thinking

[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.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Country #Holiday #Artist

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

#Thinking #Particular

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.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Thinking #World #Band

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

#Artist #Odd

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

#Brain #Hollywood #Changed

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.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Girl #Singers #Would Be

I'm vulnerable, I'm vulnerable. I am not a robot.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Robots #Vulnerable

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

#People #Narcissistic

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

#Tough #Crew #Touring

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.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Moving #Looks #Pumps

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.'
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Party #Cutting #Three

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.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Crazy #Impact #People

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.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Play #Identity #Becoming

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.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Heart #Ambitious #Sides

My biggest fear is love and getting hurt in love but still believing.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Hurt #Believe #Stills

I'm obsessed with the mess that's America.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#America #Obsessed #Mess

I want blood, guts, and chocolate cake.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Blood #Cake #Chocolate

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

#Dresses #Mess #Looking Pretty

I feel like I'm the worst, so I always act like I'm the best.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Worst #Feels

You can’t have peace without a war.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#War

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?
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Want #Restaurants #Private Life

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.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Culture #Imagine #Celebrity Culture

I'm not going to lie; I'm not a huge remix person.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Lying #Remix #Persons

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

#World #Privacy #Feels

I want to provoke people with thoughts, not by taking my clothes off. It's time to move on from Stripperville.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Moving #Clothes #People

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.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Kind #Fit

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.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Moving #Writing #Artist

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

#Stars #Blonde #Different

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.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Love You #Want #Inward

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.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Thinking #Personality #Age

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.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Nice #Add #Accessories

I love pop music because you can really see what's currently happening in society.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Pops #Pop Music

I quite like dark humor.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Dark #Dark Humor

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

#Thinking #People #Important

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

#Thinking #People #Musical

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

#Google #Internet #Unhealthy

I was always very creative. I was always into acting and dancing when I was younger.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Dancing #Creative #Acting

I'm a very, very disciplined person.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Persons

I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Stars #Innocent #Pops

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

#Karma #Hurt #People