Marina and the Diamonds Quotes
Music is my 90% of my life and my biggest passion. I really don't have an interest in anything else.
Quotes to Explore
-
Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.
-
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
-
I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
-
I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
-
I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I have been blessed too. I have had a great life.
-
I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.
-
Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
-
I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
-
I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
-
Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
-
Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
-
And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.
-
I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.
-
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
-
Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
-
But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.
-
I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, because I was in it. When I retired, I wanted the opportunity to be a little bit more flexible and home-based for my kids.
-
I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.
-
I wanted to follow the path of music and feel that power, and I couldn't turn back.
-
Keep calm and chive on.
-
I did a 'Love Boat!' And based on my trip on the 'Love Boat,' I said, 'I'd just as soon not do 'Fantasy Island.''
-
The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape.
-
Don't be afraid of your own power.
-
Music is my 90% of my life and my biggest passion. I really don't have an interest in anything else.
