Quotes from 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.

I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

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

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.

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.

I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.

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.

Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.

Live fast. Die young. Be wild. Have fun.

We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.

Life is beautiful, but you don't have a clue.

I've been really blessed to have a lot of romance in my life. It's like my last luxury.

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.

I just look for someone who makes me feel like life is an exciting opportunity and, you know, just like to be alive.

I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

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 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. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we're even alive at all.

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.

I never stopped writing about what was actually going on in my life. There's nothing to hide.

Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art.

My dancing is Hawaiian-inspired but I also get a little fresh when it comes to my faster songs.

Life is a velvet crowbar hitting you over the head, youre bleeding syrup amour, bleeding to death.

I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time.

Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go.