Marina and the Diamonds Quotes

You've just gotta go in and write from the heart and write the best material that you can and put it out. If one hits, hey, great. It keeps the legacy going. But you've gotta keep doing new material. It's the future of any band.

I make music almost, like, every day. But I don't release a lot of music.

Last year I was 16, it was my first round of releasing music. Since then I've been working more on having an identity as an artist and really figuring out what it is that I want to talk about and how I want to sound.

When I did 'Ephorize,' I didn't know that later on I'd be releasing another album. It just came.

My primary goal is to be a solo artist releasing original music.

Like everything at Big Machine Label Group, the music comes out when it's ready.

I love the creation process [of music] of it and then sharing it, so I think that was the shift. I never thought I was going to be on a label in general, I was like 'Oh, I wouldn't do that,' and then we ended up on the same label basically.

I don't spend much time listening to the records when they're done. Usually I let go of it. Especially in the Eighties and Nineties - they were like product, almost.

So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.

I'm confident being at Universal, which is a great home for me, 'cause they understand what I'm trying to do.

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.

The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

It's very easy for people to put out music.

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

U2 albums never get finished. They just get released.

A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.

It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists... I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.

You want to sell records, but if you want to call yourself an artist, your job is how you express yourself.

All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.

I put a song out for fun, from 'Lucky Them'... I wrote another one called 'Love Song.' I really liked that.

I'm really excited because Interscope is really focused on artists. They've been working side by side with me creatively and allowing me to make a lot of the creative decisions, which you don't always hear about. That's why I didn't want to sign originally with a major label.

I love hooks, but getting radio airplay has never been a concern to me while I'm writing. That would be a very stifling and imprisoning way of writing music.

It's great to be able to find a way to release your music and do what you want to do artistically and not have to just worry about being accepted by the major label industry.