Marina and the Diamonds Quotes

Seeing, feeling, thinking, believing - these are the stages of how we change our style on the outside and our self-image on the inside.

I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.

I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.

You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

I learned that you go through things, you deal with them and that's what empowers you and ultimately makes you a happy person.

It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.

I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

I'm good at playing the emotionally strangled person. The woman who is in the worst place in her life. That's me!

Everyone has something that they carry always, even if it's just as simple as, 'I hate myself.' Everyone's got a different thing.

People didn't like me; I was loud and aggressive. People can take it from a 42-year-old, but when you're a little kid, and people are like, 'You're loud and awful,' you think, 'I guess I am awful,' so writing and figuring out how to put things into words was the way I felt better.

There's always going to be someone who doesn't like you, but what can they do?

Rejection doesn't always mean I'm not good enough.

I appreciate what I have and, when people called me flash in the past, it hurt. I read an article not long ago saying I had given up all the bling and was concentrating on my football. Forget the football articles, that was one of the most satisfying things I have ever read about myself.

I think everybody wants to feel validated in some way, and when you're looking for leisure activities or if you're looking for escapism or things like that, you want to read about characters you can identify with.

Working on this album has been very emotional and super personal, and creating this character 'Cry Baby' helped me deal with my own insecurities.

There are times when you're being judged on your appearance and you're not feeling your best self. It hurts, but as I always say, I try and be 100 percent myself all the time. So if I'm rejected, it just hurts that little bit less because at least I was myself.

Forgive me, that I manage badly, Manage badly but live gloriously, That I leave traces of myself in my songs, That I appeared to you in waking dreams.

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

Be who you are and don't allow anyone to affect the confidence you have in your individuality.

There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well.

Every day you must try to make your own self-image grow; this you can do.

Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.