Marina and the Diamonds

I'm a very, very disciplined person.

I didn't even listen to any music until I was 19, really. I just wanted to be famous. But I didn't say it to anyone because I was really embarrassed at the thought.

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.

What I hate is that not many people admit to having a big ego, but you have to - and there's nothing wrong with it.

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.

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

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.

Music is my 90% of my life and my biggest passion. I really don't have an interest in anything else.

Nobody will admit to playing power games in relationships, but they do.

I love pop music because you can really see what's currently happening in society.

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.

Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I was so motivated and thought that if I did I wouldn't succeed.