Marina and the Diamonds Quotes

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

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

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

I want blood, guts, and chocolate cake.

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

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

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.

You can’t have peace without a war.

Drink to forget; don't forget to drink.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

I quite like dark humor.

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

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 masquerading as an innocent pop star.

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

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

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.

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.