You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, 'I'm your mirror; if I can do this in my life, you can do it in yours.'
Marina Abramovic
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I can go in front of an orchestra. I can go in front of an audience. But if you see me walking throu... KURT MASUR Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I... DON RICKLES Luckily, I'm not a stand-up comedian, so I don't get the fear of standing on stage in front ... CHARLES STROSS I put my life in danger every time I do some of these demonstrations, whether it's in the audien... CRISS ANGEL I've always had to conquer fear when I'm on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy ... STEVEN WRIGHT Usually when I'm making a movie, what I have in mind first, for the visuals, is how we can stage... WES ANDERSON Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here... ETHEL MERMAN As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my song... DAVID BOWIE People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, &... KAREN CARPENTER Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do... CARMEN ELECTRA With stand-up you can just be yourself on stage. And ideally, you can't see the crowd most of th... MARTHA KELLY I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell t... JOHN LYDON I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to s... OZZY OSBOURNE My skirt fell off on stage during a performance of Hairspray on Broadway, revealing my fat suit over... BRUCE VILANCH And then as I got older, see, I think a lot of times with comics, your life kind of permeates your a... BILLY GARDELL I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live perf... TAMARA TUNIE If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performa... STEVIE NICKS When I walk out on stage, I don't know who's in the audience. To me, in my little fat skull,... DAVE COULIER When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on sta... B. B. KING One of the biggest misconceptions about me is that I'm a comedian, which I'm not. A comedian... EUGENE LEVY People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage. DAVID LEE ROTH I feel that in-person contact with people is the most important thing in comedy. While I'm up on sta... BILL COSBY 6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break: 1. Stop stressing 2. Stop worrying 3. Give re... GERMANY KENT I don't feel I'm fighting to reach this huge audience; it just happens. I go on stage before... DANIELLE DE NIESE You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to ... LAURA LINNEY If we want to make Tiger Woods's or Al Gore's face, the best thing would be to have them com... JIMMY LAI Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a... KILROY J. OLDSTER As any speaker will tell you, when you address a large number of people from a stage, you try to mak... SIMON MAINWARING I think, as an actor, it is good to feel the fear of failing miserably. I think you should take that... JOHNNY DEPP I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the s... NOLAN NORTH To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows... SOCRATES I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South Ame... KEITH EMERSON When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this bl... SUZANNE FARRELL I won the speech competition in class, and I always say this was my first 'spoken word performan... RUPI KAUR But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. ... MICHAEL HUTCHENCE My former high school teacher once said: "John's brain is a size of a peanut." Now, before I go to t... JOHN B. BEJO I reached the stage where I was afraid to wiggle my leg, but then I thought 'why shouldn't I... STEVE MARRIOTT When you think Tink, you should just think of me as that around-the-way girl - relatable and honest.... TINK There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house,... NANCY MARCHAND I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all. THEODORE BIKEL I just have this fear that I'll get on stage and there'll be that brief moment of adrenalin ... DANIEL RADCLIFFE Cease to think of an impossibility and you will seize an opportunity for productivity. Excellence co... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctua... FLORENCE WELCH Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ... GERMANY KENT Stage fright is my worst problem. A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there... ANDREA BOCELLI Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much abou... NATURI NAUGHTON Start dancing around the hall, then when you come in front of the stage, each one of you can kiss my... JOE SOUTH From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reac... K'NAAN In England, when we're at drama school, we spend a lot of time learning the craft from playwrigh... SAM CLAFLIN When you believe you reflect what is holy and good, you can see more that is good in every stage of ... VICTORIA MORAN Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When you've travelled for 34 years as a musician, you do all the culture stuff when you're y... PETER HOOK There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, ... BILL PULLMAN A couple of months ago I hauled my white ass on stage alongside Chaka Khan and Stevie Wonder for Div... LISA MARIE PRESLEY I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go a... DAVID ANTIN With television, attention spans have been shortened. It's something we have to fight against: t... MIRIAM MARGOLYES I know who I am. I don't have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did. You think y... AL LEWIS Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications... LEE HALL I don't like getting up in front of people and being the loud one when everybody's out quiet... TRAVIS FIMMEL I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenal... BROOKE BURKE We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA It's not humanly possible for anyone not to go through changes. Change is a constant in everyone... RANI MUKERJI I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of peo... STEVE MARTIN We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is ... WALTER MOSLEY There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Lord, help us to choose humility over pride. Help us to choose love over our reputation. ANDRENA SAWYER Pastor Smith did not have the religious constitution needed to provide salvation for any of us who�... CHERYL R COWTAN I have been acting all my life. Not traditionally per se, but on the stage of life. Where there is n... MARK THALLS That is ridiculous. During the super stage, going 120, you fly by the audience so close you could sh... MANFRED STOHL Basically, I feel fortunate to have realized what the goal is in life. There's no point in dying... GEORGE HARRISON I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I&... J. B. SMOOVE I'm in this really cool place in my career, where the stage I'm on that night, whether it... CHARLIE WORSHAM When I'm not on stage, I'm kind of shy. If you see me and I don't say much, don't th... JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo... J.D. SALINGER I'm comfortable in front of a camera, and I'm used to being watched, although that kind of b... ANDIE MACDOWELL I suffer from stage fright, so I blabber on stage and stop midway through my performances. I cannot ... DHANUSH There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I... DANIEL DAE KIM Do you want to see the person who is most sincere, honest and helpful for you and not going to let y... ZAHID CHAUDHRY Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do... CARMEN ELECTRA You go through this business and you meet people that you bond with, and you get to go make movies w... CHARLIE HUNNAM As an actor, I've grown considerably. For example, it's taken me years to get comfortable do... SANJAY DUTT I will never, never ever sing on stage, but when I'm in the studio, I do sing melody lines. When... MARTIN GARRIX I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really op... DAN AUERBACH When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exa... KEITH JARRETT Everybody goes through a stage where you have it. And, all of a sudden, you don't have it anymore. Y... BOBBY VINTON I think a lot of people mistake my confidence on stage for cockiness in real life, and that's ac... RUSSELL PETERS I started by doing a little funny story, and then I started going to open mics. I realized I had a l... LONI LOVE On the stage, you enter into a bond with the audience, and you can sense they are moved by what you&... EVERETT MCGILL Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. If I'm a bad mood, I can't go on stage and smile. GRIMES At this stage of my life I would rather try and have some small impact within a company and suffer t... GELSEY KIRKLAND Every time I start chasing my tail, and I'm trying to control all these elements of my universe,... CHERYL LADD We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do th... JAMES MCGREEVEY I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our fron... LUCY HAWKING
More Marina Abramovic
The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the r... MARINA ABRAMOVIC When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so ... MARINA ABRAMOVIC Woody Allen has a wonderful line: 'Today I'm a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?&... MARINA ABRAMOVIC My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year wit... MARINA ABRAMOVIC Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven pr... MARINA ABRAMOVIC Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow m... MARINA ABRAMOVIC People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to ... MARINA ABRAMOVIC We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your ... MARINA ABRAMOVIC You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral. MARINA ABRAMOVIC From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude... MARINA ABRAMOVIC If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, yo... MARINA ABRAMOVIC Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the de... MARINA ABRAMOVIC The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it&... MARINA ABRAMOVIC My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the ... MARINA ABRAMOVIC I want to dominate the man's world. MARINA ABRAMOVIC It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to ... MARINA ABRAMOVIC You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the ... MARINA ABRAMOVIC I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman.... MARINA ABRAMOVIC I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other i... MARINA ABRAMOVIC With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself. MARINA ABRAMOVIC In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the e... MARINA ABRAMOVIC I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the livin... MARINA ABRAMOVIC Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memo... MARINA ABRAMOVIC I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic,... MARINA ABRAMOVIC I really don't like art where you need to know so much theory to understand. If the theory is re... MARINA ABRAMOVIC Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for. MARINA ABRAMOVIC You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire de... MARINA ABRAMOVIC I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the nigh... MARINA ABRAMOVIC You know, everyone is always talking about plastic surgery, or the technology, what to do. I really ... MARINA ABRAMOVIC I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I... MARINA ABRAMOVIC First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to... MARINA ABRAMOVIC I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to ex... MARINA ABRAMOVIC I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm e... MARINA ABRAMOVIC I used to have a recurring dream where I was at a party in a country house, surrounded by the same p... MARINA ABRAMOVIC To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall ... MARINA ABRAMOVIC I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and s... MARINA ABRAMOVIC When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with w... MARINA ABRAMOVIC The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing. MARINA ABRAMOVIC When you have heartbreak, what's important is that you don't go halfway. Go all the way down... MARINA ABROMOVIC A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths. MARINA TSVETAEVA I had difficult mother, difficult childhood like she had. She is Sagittarius like I am. I almost die... MARINA ABROMOVIC I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth. MARINA SIRTIS Of course I dream to have this perfect man who does not want to change me. And I'm so not marria... MARINA ABROMOVIC Unconditional love with someone you've never met is a straightforward feeling that is so overwhe... MARINA ABROMOVIC I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school. MARINA WARNER One of my aims was to be paid as well as a plumber. Plumber was better-paid than any performance art... MARINA ABROMOVIC There are good artists that have children. Of course there are. They are called men. MARINA ABROMOVIC There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone... MARINA TSVETAEVA In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the e... MARINA ABROMOVIC I have the greatest respect for Aborigine people, to whom I owe everything. The time I spent with me... MARINA ABROMOVIC It took Feyra some time to realise that she was not delirious: the citizens were wearing painted mas... MARINA FIORATO Who sleeps at night? No one is sleeping.
In the cradle a child is screaming.
An old ... MARINA TSVETAEVA There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone... MARINA TSVETAEVA And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it. MARINA TSVETAEVA It is remarkable that a fist-gnawingly dire England performance still has the power to shock, when i... MARINA HYDE One of the achievements of our generation of feminists was to emancipate women from the division bet... MARINA WARNER The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. MARINA WARNER Sprint has essentially under-performed in that space. It does not have nearly as much market share. MARINA AMOROSO This is a natural extension of location services we've seen serving the business market to track wor... MARINA AMOROSO There's really not a great understanding right now about what appeals to parents and kids. It's a ma... MARINA AMOROSO The carriers are realizing to get the last customers they need to offer more than just a mass approa... MARINA AMOROSO These Are The Voyages... MARINA SIRTIS When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they're seeing fairies. MARINA GALLAGHER As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it... MARINA LEWYCKA With you, I truly am fearless, Marcus. With you, I’m not even afraid to be weak. MARINA SIMCOE I want to sleep with you, fall asleep and sleep. That magnificent folk word, how deep, how true, how... MARINA TSVETAEVA The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio , and... MARINA WARNER All the aggressive actions I do to myself I would never dream of doing in my own life - I am not thi... MARINA ABROMOVIC I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my Star Trek charac... MARINA SIRTIS They should've done a two-hour, you know, like we did. Then I would've gotten double the money, that... MARINA SIRTIS The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmes... MARINA WARNER A society that doesn't know any longer how to observe every death with proper rituals, that does not... MARINA WARNER The memory is like a cat scratching my heart. MARINA OSWALD Самый необитаемый из всех островов - толпа. MARINA DYACHENKO My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar ... MARINA TSVETAEVA Because in the end you are really alone, whatever you do. MARINA ABRAMOVIć I wasn't a 'Star Trek' fan, yet I knew who all the characters were. that goes to show wh... MARINA SIRTIS Do you wanna leave soon? No, I want enough time to be in love with everything... And I cry... MARINA KEEGAN I want enough time to be in love with everything . . . MARINA KEEGAN What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start ove... MARINA KEEGAN The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out ... MARINA WARNER Quinn had never stayed at a hotel that used real keys. Most had plastic keycards--like credit cards ... MARINA COHEN We're so young. We're so young. We're twenty-two years old. We have so much time. There's this senti... MARINA KEEGAN We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I wa... MARINA KEEGAN I was raised to believe that all I could ever be was a criminal. It made me want to be anything but ... MARINA SIMCOE I like to work with people. I enjoy my job. I really enjoy it. MARINA ROMERO We're here to help the Spanish community because sometimes our people feel more comfortable being se... MARINA ROMERO My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my p... MARINA TSVETAEVA What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that... MARINA TSVETAEVA We rely on people coming out and being patrons to help this site continue to thrive. MARINA TORTORELLO It's something people don't see normally. To see people dressed up in that time period and using the... MARINA TORTORELLO Living conditions were good in this area. MARINA TORTORELLO We wanted to give people an idea of what it was like living in that time. MARINA TORTORELLO Apparently I'm the 'eye-candy' of TNG, which at my age I find quite a compliment. MARINA SIRTIS No amount of justice could bring them back or replace the emptiness I feel, but I'm glad he's off th... MARINA DANIELS The lives that Gertrude has touched would fill this whole hospital. She'd give you her heart from he... MARINA DANIELS She would call me every day on her way to work. Yesterday I was waiting for her to call and it never... MARINA DANIELS She would go to McDonald's and give it out to homeless people. MARINA DANIELS I would just like for him to go to court. I don't have any bitterness against him. MARINA DANIELS It's really annoying when you have (people) butting in line when everyone's waiting for an hour and ... MARINA BARTUREN Sometimes in the dark of night I begin to think. And I wonder if Lee started all this violence. MARINA OSWALD There are still some perceptions that attendees would do nothing but play while they are here. It's ... MARINA NICOLA We had the economy. We had the Iraqi war. We had SARS. Those things took a huge chunk out of the num... MARINA NICOLA It makes sense to practice moving around gracefully in it. MARINA LITTERSCHEIDT What I wish for him in my thoughts is that he would preserve his health, I think that's the most imp... MARINA KHODORKOVSKY If
they allow to see him and bring him (food) only six times a year, then there is no sense to li... MARINA KHODORKOVSKY Redondo is always, no matter what, out to have a good time. That's what surfing is supposed to be al... MARINA RICHARDSON Every time there is a humanitarian catastrophe, you hear the same promise: There will be a seamless ... MARINA OTTAWAY You need to convince the international community that there is a looming crisis before there are pic... MARINA OTTAWAY What I expect to happen is that the US will be very cautious in pushing for elections as soon as pos... MARINA OTTAWAY Much more common and insidious in the contemporary world is a situation where central authority has ... MARINA OTTAWAY In Iraq, that's not what we find. MARINA OTTAWAY One can date the beginning of a civil war only in retrospect. But when we see deliberate attacks on ... MARINA OTTAWAY He's being as forceful as he can be, given the circumstances. MARINA OTTAWAY I saw everything in the world build up and then everything in the world fall down again. MARINA KEEGAN Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Sold my soul and yeah, the truth hurts. MARINA DIAMANDIS MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that... MARINA IVANOVA TSVETAEVA There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone... MARINA IVANOVA TSVETAEVA A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths. MARINA IVANOVA TSVETAEVA My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my p... MARINA IVANOVA TSVETAEVA Sólo mediante la información que poseemos, incorporada a nuestro organismo, sean los esquemas inna... JOSé ANTONIO MARINA To Graduate from the "School of Life" you need to have met the following criteria: Found your life p... MARINA G. ROUSSOU Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you'... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commerc... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. I... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to ... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life gro... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so tr... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an ... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like so... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like tha... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star ha... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I w... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Britney Spears is a big influence. Huge. I think people thought I was joking about that for a long t... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about i... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I often take things I find in vintage crawls and hand them to a very good seamstress, who then repli... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first ... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the worl... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playi... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't war... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I don't think I'm an instantaneous act the whole world will love in one second - but that... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS My style icons are Leigh Lezark, Gwen Stefani and Shirley Manson. MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not relig... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star. MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest t... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I hate the whole 'record your album, do your promo campaign, have a year off to write another al... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm not going to lie; I'm not a huge remix person. MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I could draw up a list of about 30 artists who I apparently sound like. From Lady Gaga, to Katy Perr... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Touring can be tough; the crew and I travel everywhere by a big pink bus, and live in petrol station... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I don't just want to sing about simplistic things all the time. It's good to have a mix of s... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Everybody is different. Some people like to share more. I just wouldn't want to spoil someone... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS My friend Oscar is one of those princes without kingdom who wander around hoping you'll kiss them so... -MARINA ; CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN