"Every time I close my eyes, it's like a dark paradise. No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight"
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Lana Del Rey quotes (page 7 of 10)
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"Don't make me sad, don't make me cry. Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough, I don't know why."
"And I really have done everything that I said I did do. The rest is just a story that somebody else made up."
"The thing about me is, coming from an alternative music background and singing for nine years, being basically invisible, I'm so used to writing for myself - and at the end of the day, I do it because I feel like I have to. So when I'm recording or writing, I don't have other people in mind."
"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."
"I sing the National Anthem, while I'm standing, over your body, hold you like a python."
"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."
"Cruel World has been my favourite track from Ultraviolence ever since I recorded it."
"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."
"When you long you can not achieve anything when you repeatedly have to lose all that you had hoped, you gradually become still."
"I don't like live television, the only tip I have is just pray."
"I already have success. I had it a long time ago. It's nothing to do with my music. Music is secondary, at this point. The good stuff is really good, but I have success because I'm at peace and I'm a good person in my everyday life and that's important."
"I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies."
"Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary."
"Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing."
"I never stopped writing about what was actually going on in my life. There's nothing to hide."
"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!"
"Body Electric... It is the first song from my new short film called # Tropico that is coming out in the end of the month."
"A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York."
"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"