Lana Del Rey Quotes - Page 4

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

There's backlash about everything I do.

I sort of do what I say and say what I do which I'm happy with because it makes my life real easy. When I was younger, people would say that I was inspired by David Lynch, so I went and watched his stuff and I was surprised. I thought it was smart, with what I was trying to do lyrically. So I started watching some of his stuff. I've never seen his movies in [their] entirety, I'm more interested in him as a person and how he came to be successful taking an alternative route, sort of a subculture icon.

Do you know how expensive it is to look this cheap?

Pick your role models wisely, find out what they did and do it.

I still have my same babysitting job, I babysit twice a week.

My understanding of God has come from my own personal experiences. Because I was in trouble so many times in New York that if you were me, you would believe in God too.

I believe in free love and that's just how I feel. It's just my experience of being with different kinds of men and being born without a preference for a certain type of person. For me, that is my story in finding love in lots of different people, and that's been the second biggest influence in my music.

I wanted to be part of a high-class scene of musicians. It was half-inspired because I didn't have many friends, and I was hoping that I would meet people and fall in love and start a community around me, the way they used to do in the '60s.

[About her boyfriend Barrie] We kick each others asses. We give each other input every night.

[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.

Dark and lonely. I need somebody to hold me

If my choice is to, I don’t know, be with a lot of men, or if I enjoy a really physical relationship, I don’t think that’s necessarily being anti-feminist. For me the argument of feminism never really should have come into the picture. Because I don’t know too much about the history of feminism, and so I’m not really a relevant person to bring into the conversation. Everything I was writing was so autobiographical, it could really only be a personal analysis.

My parents were lovely. They've always been supportive. When you love your child, you don't know what to do with someone who wants to do what no one else does successfully. If I had someone younger I loved, I'd be worried for them too if I didn't have guidance to give them.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

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.

I guess my strongest recurring theme is honoring love, even when it's lost.

My baby lives in shades of blue, blue eyes and jazz and attitude.

Dope and diamonds, dope and diamonds, that's all that I want

I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable.

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.

God has saved me a million times, so I think He mustve enjoyed my song.

My songs are cinematic so they seem to reference a glamorous era or fetishize certain lifestyles, but that's not my aim.

I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.