Lana Rey Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don't fail forever. — Lana Del Rey

I've clearer idea of how I don't want to be seen - as someone who does what everyone wants them to. — 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

I don't like live television, the only tip I have is just pray. — Lana Del Rey

Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go. — Lana Del Rey

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

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in. — Lana Del Rey

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' — Lana Del Rey

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

I still have my same babysitting job, I babysit twice a week. — Lana Del Rey

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. — 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

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

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

I was always a singer, it was nothing anyone planned on me doing for real, because it's an unusual thing. I was just sort of saying, even having modest ambitions to have a small career at singing, it's still really difficult to do that. Everyone wants to sing or act or whatever. — Lana Del Rey

Walking through the city streets ... Is it by mistake or design? — Lana Del Rey

Down on the West Coast I get this feeling like it all could happen. — 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

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

I believe in the person I want to become — 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

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

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

Clara smoked in the shallow pool as Lana del Rey poured from her phone. She shaded her eyes. She liked the shallow pool because she could lay out, half in the sun, half in the water, and not get her hair wet. She had black eyeliner smeared under her eyes from who-knows-when, and while she never bothered to fix it, she did apply more, so she looked permanently hung over. She liked that. — Lisa Martens

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

I once had dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events saw 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.
When the people I used to know found out what I had been doing, how I'd been living, they asked me why - but there's no use in talking to people who have home.
They have no idea what it's like to seek safety in other people - for home to be wherever you lay your head. — 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

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

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

I want my cake and I wanna eat it too,
I wanna have fun and be inlove with you.. — Lana Del Rey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — 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

I was always singing but didn't plan on pursuing it seriously. 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. — 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 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

My mum and my dad they both like to sing they have really nice voices and my sister and my brother actually they are good singers too. I've been really blessed actually more than most to have a really good people around me. — Lana Del Rey

They judge me like a picture book,
For the colours like they forgot to read — Lana Del Rey

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

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

Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone.
Who had nothing, who wanted everything. — 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 am nostalgic of an era I never knew. — 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

Bad things happen everyday but you're not going to be any happier thinking about them. So I don't think about them. — Lana Del Rey

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. — Lana Del Rey

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

Money is the anthem, of succes, so put on your mascara and your party dress — Lana Del Rey

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me. — 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

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. — Lana Del Rey

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

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

I'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy.
I'm tired of driving till I see stars in my eyes. — Lana Del Rey

When you have absolutely no idea what's going to happen to you or what your career's going to end up like and you're just really open to anything, then you don't really have anything to loose. — 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

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

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

I want to find someone who's really magnetic but who isn't going to do anything bad to me. It's hard. — Lana Del Rey

Lana Del Rey seems to be bothering everybody because she allegedly 'remade' herself from a folk singing, girl-next-door type into an electro-urban kitty cat on the prowl (of course I like her), and they feel she is inauthentic. — Liz Phair

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

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

I feel free when I see no one and nobody knows my name — Lana Del Rey

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. — 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

My pussy tastes like Pepsi Cola." Lana Del Rey — Maddie Holliday Von Stark

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic. — Lana Del Rey

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

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. — Lana Del Rey

When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying. — Lana Del Rey

I like a little hardcore love. — Lana Del Rey

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

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

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

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. — Lana Del Rey

Kiss Me Hard Before You Go,Summertime Sadness — 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

High heels off; I'm feeling alive. — 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

When I put out 'Video Games' in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens! — Lana Del Rey