"In the land of God's and Monsters, I was an angel looking to get f-ked hard."
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"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."
"God has saved me a million times, so I think He mustve enjoyed my song."
"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."
"Dark and lonely. I need somebody to hold me"
"Nothing I ever wrote had a message. It was just my own personal experience."
"Do you know how expensive it is to look this cheap?"
"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 like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies."
"Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past."
"I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable."
"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."
"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."
"[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."
"Money is the anthem, of succes, so put on your mascara and your party dress"
"[Could you show us how Lana Del Rey dances in a club?] That would be illegal."
"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 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'm like a child who belongs to nobody."
"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."