Lana Del Rey Quotes - Page 5

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?

I'm not trying to create an image or a persona. I'm just singing because that's what I know how to do.

I'd been sick on tour for about two years with this medical anomaly that doctors couldn't figure out. That's a big part of my life: I just feel really sick a lot of the time and can't figure out why. I'd gotten these shots in Russia, where we'd just been. It was just heavy. It's just heavy performing for people who really care about you, and you don't really care that much about yourself sometimes.

In the land of God's and Monsters, I was an angel looking to get f-ked hard.

I don't really care about how good a song is, I only want them to reflect what I felt when I was writing them

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.

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.

In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

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.

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.

[Could you show us how Lana Del Rey dances in a club?] That would be illegal.

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.

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.

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

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!

When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.

People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.

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. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

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.

I was a different sort of child, as half the children are. I was in that category of being free-spirited.

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.

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.

I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale.

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.

A lot of the reason my look is the way it is, is because it's really easy to put on a sundress every night if I have to perform - or just wear jeans every day and a flannel or something.