Marina and the Diamonds Quotes
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This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like that, and I don't want to be a typical pop star.
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Actually, I think that a lot of the interviews and acoustic sessions and other things that artists fill their time with are really pointless and suck the energy out of the artist.
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I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.
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I was always very creative. I was always into acting and dancing when I was younger.
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Everybody is different. Some people like to share more. I just wouldn't want to spoil someone's opinion of me by them knowing me as a person instead of an artist.
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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.
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Music is my 90% of my life and my biggest passion. I really don't have an interest in anything else.
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I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not religious and I don't have idols, so something has to drive me.
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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.
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I really do want people to listen to the music more than watch what I wear. There's time for that later. I've got the rest of my life to dress up and look nice.
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I thought for a long time that I was going to be a pop artist. It was around 18-19 that I started to make that a reality. I just knew that this was my destiny.
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Rejection is a universally embarrassing topic and 'Electra Heart' is my response to that. It is a frank album.
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There's no one particular road that will lead you to success. I think everybody will find it differently.
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Touring can be tough; the crew and I travel everywhere by a big pink bus, and live in petrol stations.
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I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people.
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Hollywood infected my brain and I really valued the wrong things in life, but I changed dramatically.
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I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about it. And I stepped back and thought 'Why are you bitter? You can't just stand there like every other indie musician and criticize this so-called 'generic' music when you're not doing anything to challenge that.'
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I want to provoke people with thoughts, not by taking my clothes off. It's time to move on from Stripperville.
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If you're making too many excuses for someone, agonising over them in a way which takes up all your waking thoughts and feel so nervous around them you could be sick, then they are probably the wrong person.
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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.
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There's nothing I'd never wear, really. I've worn pink spotty pajamas from a Goodwill store onstage before. This only happens when I'm having a small breakdown!
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I turned off my Google alerts in 2009 as I learnt that following yourself on the Internet very quickly becomes unhealthy.
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You know what, if you compromise and do stuff that's not becoming to you as an artist, that's your fault.
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Success, I've come to realise, is fleeting so you shouldn't value it too much.