Welsh - Musician | October 10, 1985 -
I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people.
Marina and the Diamonds
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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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Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star has always been blonde.
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I quite like dark humor.
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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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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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If you don't want to have your private life splashed everywhere, why go to the restaurants and the places you know you're going to be photographed?
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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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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.
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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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There's nothing I'd never wear, really. I've worn pink spotty pajamas from a Goodwill store onstage before. This only happens when I'm having a small breakdown!
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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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