Lana Del Rey Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

And I really have done everything that I said I did do. The rest is just a story that somebody else made up. — Lana Del Rey

I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical. — Lana Del Rey

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

My dancing is Hawaiian-inspired but I also get a little fresh when it comes to my faster songs. — Lana Del Rey

Loving you forever can't be wrong. Even though you're not here, can't move on — Lana Del Rey

Mary prays the rosary for my broken mind ... — Lana Del Rey

Sometimes I wish I was a beautiful machine so I could resist your kiss and not cry when you're mean. — Lana Del Rey

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. — Lana Del Rey

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal. — Lana Del Rey

A lot of what's been written about me is not true: of my family history or my choices or my interests. Actually, I've never read anything written about me that was true. It's been completely crazy. — Lana Del Rey

Live fast. Die young. Be wild. Have fun. — Lana Del Rey

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

I sing the National Anthem, while I'm standing, over your body, hold you like a python. — Lana Del Rey

I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. 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 hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast
I am alone in the night
Been trying hard not to get into trouble, but I
I've got a war in my mind
So, I just ride — 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 am my only God. — Lana Del Rey

I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth. — Lana Del Rey

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. — Lana Del Rey

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

Mary praise the rosary for my broken mind. — Lana Del Rey

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. — 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

I believe in the person I want to become — Lana Del Rey

I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful. — Lana Del Rey

I'm more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what's going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities. — Lana Del Rey

I've making videos since I was seventeen I was originally discollecting vintage hmmm ... footages from different archives and setting moving pictures to classical music clips that meant a lot to me. Maybe there were places I have been where nice things have happened. I had a vision of making my life a work of art and I was looking for people who also felt that way. — Lana Del Rey

I've got a war in my mind — Lana Del Rey

I didn't live at school, 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. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things. — 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

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing. — Lana Del Rey

I believe in Amy Winehouse. I know she's not with us anymore but I believe she was who she was and in that way she got it right. I would say an actress like Lauren Bacall also got it right. She never let anyone [persuade] her to be something she wasn't. She was strong. She always looked like she knew what she was doing. — Lana Del Rey

I believe in the country America used to be — Lana Del Rey

But I didn't really mind it because I knew that it
takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it to know what
true freedom is. — Lana Del Rey

New York's architecture alone is enough to inspire a whole album. In fact, that's what happened at first - my early stuff was mostly just interpretations of landscapes. — Lana Del Rey

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. — 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

[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

Everytime I close my eyes it's like a dark paradise. No one compares to you, I'm scared that you won't be waiting on the other side. — 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 them — Lana Del Rey

I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story. — 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. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we're even alive at all. — Lana Del Rey

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. — Lana Del Rey

When you long you can not achieve anything when you repeatedly have to lose all that you had hoped, you gradually become still. — Lana Del Rey

I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things. — Lana Del Rey

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

Being an entrepreneur doesn't make you a rich tycoon and being an innovator doesn't mean that you're successful. It just means that you're interesting. — Lana Del Rey

Think I'll miss you forever,
Like the stars miss the sun in the morning sky. — 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

When you get real big baby, remember that little old cowgirl. Waiting for you back in that red river valley. — Lana Del Rey

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty. — 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

I've got feathers in my hair,
I get down to beat poetry. — Lana Del Rey

High heels off; I'm feeling alive. — Lana Del Rey

Springsteen is the king, don't you think? I was like, hell yeah, that guy can sing. — Lana Del Rey

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

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

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

As soon as the first person wrote about me, the articles became just blatant, all-out lies. I consider it slander. If I cared more, I'd kill them. — Lana Del Rey

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past. — Lana Del Rey

Me and God we don't get along. — Lana Del Rey

There's backlash about everything I do. — Lana Del Rey

Einstein said 'your imagination is more important than intelligence,' and I have a very, very big imagination. — 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. 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. — Lana Del Rey

I found it hard to make friends in school, because I was a cerebral person. — Lana Del Rey

Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary. — Lana Del Rey

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

I'm the gangsta Nancy Sinatra. — Lana Del Rey

I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies. — Lana Del Rey

I have a great appreciation for our world's history. I learn from my own mistakes, I learn from the mistakes we've made as a human race. — Lana Del Rey

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

You fit me better than my favorite sweater. — 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

It's amazing what women in love will do. — Lana Del Rey

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

What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going. — Lana Del Rey

Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn't ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing. — 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

They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read. — Lana Del Rey

I'm feelin' electric tonight
Cruising down the coast goin' 'bout 99
Got my bad baby by my heavenly side
I know if I go, I'll die happy tonight — Lana Del Rey

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me. — Lana Del Rey

I got my red dress on tonight
Dancing in the dark in the pale moonlight
Done my hair up real big beauty queen style
High heels off, I'm feeling alive — Lana Del Rey

I'm happy when things are just kind of calm. I love going to the ocean. I love driving. I love going to shows. Just being with people I really have fun with. I love the summer. I'm happy in the summer. Love hot, hot weather. I'm happy when I'm making a record, most of the time. — Lana Del Rey

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

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

I'm like a child who belongs to nobody. — Lana Del Rey

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. — Lana Del Rey

When I walk outside, people have something to say about it. — Lana Del Rey

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

I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate. — Lana Del Rey

If you're not drinkin', then you're not playin' — Lana Del Rey

People have offered me opportunities in exchange for sleeping with them. But it's not 1952 anymore. — Lana Del Rey

Will you still love me
When I'm no longer young and beautiful?
Will you still love me
When I got nothing but my aching soul?
I know you will, I know you will
I know that you will
Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful? — Lana Del Rey

I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity. — Lana Del Rey

I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves. — Lana Del Rey