Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me. — Lana Del Rey

I learned that there’s no reason why people decide they like music when they do. — Lana Del Rey

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies. — Lana Del Rey

Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing. — Lana Del Rey

I suppose my approach to religion is like my approach to music–I take what I want and leave the rest. — Lana Del Rey

The world needs poetry now more than ever. It’s the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same. — Lana Del Rey

I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic. — Lana Del Rey

Be like snow–cold, but beautiful. — Lana Del Rey

I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I’m not that comfortable, which I think is sort of clear. — Lana Del Rey

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! — Lana Del Rey

I guess my strongest recurring theme is honoring love, even when it’s lost. — Lana Del Rey

I believe that there is no doubts about who I am, an artist who loves music, above everything. — Lana Del Rey

I’ve been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story. — Lana Del Rey

That love doesn’t come easily and that relationships are supposed to be a struggle. Everything else is so hard; hopefully love is the one thing that is actually fun. — Lana Del Rey

With some of the bad things that come with love, there’s also a lot of good. For example that connection… which I struggle to have with most people. — Lana Del Rey

Don’t make me sad, don’t make me cry. Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough, I don’t know why. — Lana Del Rey

This is what makes us girls/ We don’t stick together ’cause we put our love first. — Lana Del Rey

Will you still love me when I’m no longer young and beautiful? Will you still love me when I’ve got nothing but my aching soul? — Lana Del Rey

Love is strange, sometimes it makes you crazy, it can burn or break you down. — Lana Del Rey

I am nostalgic of an era I never knew. — Lana Del Rey

I’d liked my first record, it was autobiographical and beautiful. — Lana Del Rey

I know now that it’s really important to feel beautiful. There is a power to that. — Lana Del Rey

I feel a strong relationship with God and I feel my ties are with him. That’s how I honestly feel. — Lana Del Rey

I’m not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange. — Lana Del Rey

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. — Lana Del Rey

My idea of a true feminist is a woman who feels free enough to do whatever she wants. — Lana Del Rey

I just look for someone who makes me feel like life is an exciting opportunity and, you know, just like to be alive. — Lana Del Rey

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. — Lana Del Rey

I wish I could escape into some alter–ego, just so I could feel more comfortable onstage. — Lana Del Rey

The angels decided to shine on me for a little while. — Lana Del Rey

You’re divine. Didn’t anyone ever tell you It’s OK to shine? — Lana Del Rey

You do things so fast, you end up having so many different lifestyles all in one short time. — Lana Del Rey

Every time I close my eyes, it’s like a dark paradise. No one compares to you, but there’s no you, except in my dreams tonight — Lana Del Rey

About being a teenager] Like, at first it’s fine and you think you have a dark side–it’s exciting–and then you realise the dark side wins every time. — Lana Del Rey

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York. — Lana Del Rey

I’ve been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time. — Lana Del Rey

To be honest like when you work at something for a long time and then coming to a family of people who support what you do hmm… you are very lucky! — Lana Del Rey

Well, I mean, taking time for your art is taking time for yourself, isn’t it? — Lana Del Rey

I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba–Lana Del Rey reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue. — Lana Del Rey

I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. — Lana Del Rey

About Paz De La Huerta….] And there is this girl in the audience and she’s gorgeous I can only kind of see her silhouette and she’s getting like her t*ts out and I’m like: God, that’s unusual. — Lana Del Rey

In the end, I find my influences or inspirations where I can. — Lana Del Rey

It’s nice to be able to try and build the life you want for yourself. — Lana Del Rey

Oh what can i do life is beautiful but you don’t have a clue. — Lana Del Rey

I’ve been really blessed to have a lot of romance in my life. It’s like my last luxury. — Lana Del Rey

I’m interested in the gorgeous side of life, but also familiar with the dark side too. — Lana Del Rey

My father’s love was always strongMy mother’s glamour lives on and on.Yet still inside I felt alone, for reasones unknow to me. — Lana Del Rey

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. — Lana Del Rey

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world. — Lana Del Rey

I never stopped writing about what was actually going on in my life. There’s nothing to hide. — Lana Del Rey

My baby lives in shades of blue, blue eyes and jazz and attitude. — Lana Del Rey

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. — Lana Del Rey

Life is a velvet crowbar hitting you over the head, youre bleeding syrup amour, bleeding to death. — Lana Del Rey

We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore–except to make our lives into a work of art. — Lana Del Rey

Who are you? Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies? Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them? I have. I am fucking crazy. But I am free. — Lana Del Rey

Even if you’re the best singer in the world, there’s a good chance no one will ever hear you. — Lana Del Rey

Cruel World has been my favourite track from Ultraviolence ever since I recorded it. — Lana Del Rey

I pretend I’m not hurt, I walk about the world like I’m having fun. — Lana Del Rey

Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people. — Lana Del Rey

I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality. — Lana Del Rey