Marina and the diamonds quotes

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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

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'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.

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

I quite like dark humor.

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

I'm a very, very disciplined person.

I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star.

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

Trends in culture all serve a purpose and that's always indicative in fashion and music, you can always tell what's going on culturally in the mindset of the young generation if you look at those mediums.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I want blood, guts, and chocolate cake.

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

You can’t have peace without a war.

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

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

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

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

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.

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'm obsessed with the mess that's America.

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

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

Drink to forget; don't forget to drink.

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

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.

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

[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.

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

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.'

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

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.

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 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 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.