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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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Marina and the Diamonds
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: October 10
Composer
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Belgrade
Serbia
Marina Lambrini Diamandis
Marina & the Diamonds
Marina L. Diamandis
MARINA
Marina and the Diamonds
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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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I love pop music because you can really see what's currently happening in society.
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I'm obsessed with the mess that's America.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have sold my soul. I would sell my soul, if I could have it all.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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I'm a very, very disciplined person.
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You can’t have peace without a war.
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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.
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[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.
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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.
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