Latest Lana Del Rey Quotes from Interviews

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• Everything I do, I do it for somebody I've never met before, something in the great beyond. That's my primary relationship, really, is with something divine. I feel a connection as real with that as I've ever had with anybody on this earth.

  Lana Del Rey

  Real, Connections, Earth

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I feel a strong relationship with God and I feel my ties are with him. That's how I honestly feel.

  Lana Del Rey

  Strong, Ties, Relationship With God

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I'm not like a persona. I'm not a caricature of myself.

  Lana Del Rey

  Persona, Caricatures

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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.

  Lana Del Rey

  Letting Go, Mean, Sound

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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.

  Lana Del Rey

  Writing, Years, People

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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.

  Lana Del Rey

  Passion, Thinking, Stories

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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

  Appreciation, Mistake, Our World

  "Paradise Lost: An Interview With Lana Del Rey". Interview with Lisa Blanning, www.electronicbeats.net. 2013.

• 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

  Believe, Men, People

  "Paradise Lost: An Interview With Lana Del Rey". Interview with Lisa Blanning, www.electronicbeats.net. 2013.

• 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

  Careers, Ideas, Ends

  "Paradise Lost: An Interview With Lana Del Rey". Interview with Lisa Blanning, www.electronicbeats.net. 2013.

• Nothing I ever wrote had a message. It was just my own personal experience.

  Lana Del Rey

  Messages, My Own, Personal Experiences

  "Paradise Lost: An Interview With Lana Del Rey". Interview with Lisa Blanning, www.electronicbeats.net. 2013.

• 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

  Lying, Firsts, Slander

  "Paradise Lost: an Interview With Lana Del Rey". www.electronicbeats.net. June 19, 2013.

• 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

  Crazy, Choices, My Family

  "Paradise Lost: an Interview With Lana Del Rey". www.electronicbeats.net. June 19, 2013.

• Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

  Lana Del Rey

  Fashion, Singing, World

  "Paradise Lost: an Interview With Lana Del Rey". www.electronicbeats.net. June 19, 2013.

• 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

  Beautiful, New York, Heart

  "Paradise Lost: an Interview With Lana Del Rey". www.electronicbeats.net. June 19, 2013.

• 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.

  Lana Del Rey

  Long, Everyday, Important

  "Ice Breaker: Lana Del Rey". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. October 6, 2011.

• It's not like I think my art is inspirations from icons strung together. They're just sort of people who others talk about. I am definitely interested in the masters of different genres, they're talented and popular for a reason.

  Lana Del Rey

  Art, Inspiration, Thinking

  "Ice Breaker: Lana Del Rey". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. October 6, 2011.

• 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.

  Lana Del Rey

  Successful, Simple, Careers

  "Ice Breaker: Lana Del Rey". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. October 6, 2011.

• 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

  Real, Smart, Successful

  "Ice Breaker: Lana Del Rey". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. October 6, 2011.

• 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

  Believe, School, Thinking

  "Ice Breaker: Lana Del Rey". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. October 6, 2011.

• 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

  Love Is, People, Dying

  "Original Sin: An Interview With Lana Del Rey". Interview with John Calvert, thequietus.com. October 4, 2011.

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

  Lana Del Rey

  Powerful, Thinking, Ideas

  "Original Sin: An Interview With Lana Del Rey". Interview with John Calvert, thequietus.com. October 4, 2011.

• When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying.

  Lana Del Rey

  Lying, Bed, Praying

  "Original Sin: An Interview With Lana Del Rey". Interview with John Calvert, thequietus.com. October 4, 2011.

• I suppose my approach to religion is like my approach to music - I take what I want and leave the rest.

  Lana Del Rey

  Want, Approach

  "Original Sin: An Interview With Lana Del Rey". Interview with John Calvert, thequietus.com. October 4, 2011.

• 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.

  Lana Del Rey

  New York, Believe, Understanding

  "Original Sin: An Interview With Lana Del Rey". Interview with John Calvert, thequietus.com. October 4, 2011.

• I wish I could escape into some alter-ego, just so I could feel more comfortable onstage.

  Lana Del Rey

  Ego, Wish, Feels

  "Original Sin: An Interview With Lana Del Rey". Interview with John Calvert, thequietus.com. October 4, 2011.