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Marina and the Diamonds

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 10, 1985

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

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I quite like dark humor.

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

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

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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'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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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'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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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.'

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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 am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to give up crisps, or make my boobs shrink for that matter. Alas, I will never fit a size zero.

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I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first made it. The biggest thing I learnt was that you have to be pro-active. You can't be scared.

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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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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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Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it. That's human nature to believe that beauty is everything.

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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'm a very, very disciplined person.

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

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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 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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