Lana Del Rey
I don't really care about how good a song is, I only want them to reflect what I felt when I was writing themCollection: Song
It's more about, when I found someone that made me feel really happy, that was so different to the way I'd felt before in my life.Collection: Trust No One
I think America is amazing for its landscape and its history. California is beautiful, New York is beautiful, but when you're a gypsy at heart, it probably suits you to be traveling.Collection: Beautiful
[Could you show us how Lana Del Rey dances in a club?] That would be illegal.Collection: Trust No One
I regret trusting The Guardian. I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [The writer] was masked as a fan, but was hiding sinister ambitions and angles. Maybe he's actually the boring one looking for something interesting to write about.Collection: Regret
The act of surrendering sort of puts me in a different mindset that allows me to be more of a channel - because I'm not holding on so tightly to things, I'm letting go, and I find that in letting go I become more of a channel for life to really happen on life's terms. I mean, maybe that sounds sort of metaphysical, but that's honestly how I feel.Collection: Letting Go
I think the thing I really got from Ginsberg was that you can tell a story through kind of painting pictures with words. And when I found out that you could have a profession doing that, it was thrilling to me. It just became my passion immediately, playing with words and poetry.Collection: Passion
I am usually always singing about the same god damn person so I will love him forever but you know, it's all good. It's all good!Collection: Trust No One
I entered a songwriting competition, I didn't win, and one of the judges on the panel was an A&R man at a record label that had no other acts and I signed to them. We sent my demo out to five people and David Kahne got back to me that day, and said I think you're amazing I want to start with you tomorrow. He was like my Harvard reach school, I couldn't believe it. I was really excited. It was the first time anyone of any importance said I was good and I ran with that validation for a long time.Collection: Believe
I was a different sort of child, as half the children are. I was in that category of being free-spirited.Collection: Children
I don't even do anything in real life. I just sit in my studio and write, I call my friends, I watch television. I don't do anything.Collection: Real
I was never successful in a noteworthy way, no one wrote about me, and I didn't have recognition. I've met a lot of musicians along the way who thought I was good, and they knew that was important to me. Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.Collection: Successful
I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale.Collection: Powerful
I'm not really interested in a ton of female musicians but there is something about Britney that compelled me - the way she sings and just the way she looks.Collection: Musician
The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.Collection: Trust No One
Sometimes, love feels like a life or death situation. Losing true love is pretty much as bad as it gets, other than actually dying or losing good health. Most people know that. Most people can relate. It's like the end of the world.Collection: Love Is
You fit me better than my favorite sweater.Collection: Sweaters
People have offered me opportunities in exchange for sleeping with them. But it's not 1952 anymore.Collection: Sleep
Synchronicites . It's been said that coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous. Synchronicities are a sign of divinity. You breathe in deeply and say: 'I don't want anything. I'm going to let things happen'Collection: Divinity
Everything I do, I do it for somebody I've never met before, something in the great beyond. That's my primary relationship, really, is with something divine. I feel a connection as real with that as I've ever had with anybody on this earth.Collection: Real
Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.Collection: Trust No One
Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone. Who had nothing, who wanted everything.Collection: Wanted
When I was younger I felt lonely... In terms of my thought processes. I had the constant feeling that I thought differently to everyone around me. So, I suppose I felt lonely for a home. I didn't know where I wanted to be, but I knew I wasn't there yet.Collection: Lonely
I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken. But I didn't really mind, because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is.Collection: Beautiful
It's just a relief, really. I'm scared to die, but I want to die.Collection: Relief
Love is strange, sometimes it makes you crazy, it can burn or break you down.Collection: Crazy
Well, I mean, taking time for your art is taking time for yourself, isn't it?Collection: Art
I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we're even alive at all.Collection: Trust No One
Sometimes I wish I was a beautiful machine so I could resist your kiss and not cry when you're mean.Collection: Beautiful
I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.Collection: Girl
What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going.Collection: Hurt
When you're an introvert like me and you've been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who understands you, you become really attached to them. It's a real release.Collection: Love
It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is.Collection: Appreciation
I pretend I'm not hurt, I walk about the world like I'm having fun.Collection: Hurt
My idea of a true feminist is a woman who feels free enough to do whatever she wants.Collection: Ideas
I've got a war in my mindCollection: War
It’s about a singer who first sneered about my allegedly not authentic style but later she stole and copied it. And now she’s acting like I am the art project and she the true super artist. My God and people actually believe her, she’s successful! I shouldn't continue ranting, it doesn’t get anywhere.Collection: Art
I was, you know, a mess. I totally wanted to kill myself every day.Collection: Wanted
I found it hard to make friends in school, because I was a cerebral person.Collection: School
I just look for someone who makes me feel like life is an exciting opportunity and, you know, just like to be alive.Collection: Trust No One
When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying.Collection: Trust No One
Growing up I was always prone to obsession, partly because of the way I am, but partly because after feeling so lonely for such a long time, when I found someone or something that I liked, I felt helplessly drawn to it. I suppose that accounts for some of the creepiness in my music.Collection: Lonely
Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.Collection: Book
In the end, I find my influences or inspirations where I can.Collection: Inspiration
I want to find someone who's really magnetic but who isn't going to do anything bad to me. It's hard.Collection: Want
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. You know what makes you stronger? When people treat you & your art with dignity.Collection: Art
I'm interested in the gorgeous side of life, but also familiar with the dark side too.Collection: Trust No One
I like a little hardcore love.Collection: Littles