"I'm not trying to create an image or a persona. I'm just singing because that's what I know how to do."
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Lana Del Rey quotes (page 6 of 10)
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"For me, the issue of feminism is just not an interesting concept... Whenever people bring up feminism, I’m like, god. I’m just not really that interested."
"[About her boyfriend Barrie] We kick each others asses. We give each other input every night."
"I guess my strongest recurring theme is honoring love, even when it's lost."
"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."
"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've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story."
"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."
"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."
"Einstein said 'your imagination is more important than intelligence,' and I have a very, very big imagination."
"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."
"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."
"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 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"
"I still have my same babysitting job, I babysit twice a week."
"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."
"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."
"My songs are cinematic so they seem to reference a glamorous era or fetishize certain lifestyles, but that's not my aim."
"I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth."
"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!"