Quotes from Lana Del Rey

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

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 still have my same babysitting job, I babysit twice a week.

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!

I don't like live television, the only tip I have is just pray.

Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

I listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called 'Teen Idle' that I really like.

I guess my strongest recurring theme is honoring love, even when it's lost.

I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

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.

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

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.

This is what makes us girls/ We don't stick together 'cause we put our love first.

Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn't ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth.

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.

That love doesn't come easily and that relationships are supposed to be a struggle. Everything else is so hard; hopefully love is the one thing that is actually fun.

In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

I was always singing but didn't plan on pursuing it seriously. 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.

It's nice to be able to try and build the life you want for yourself.

My idea of a true feminist is a woman who feels free enough to do whatever she wants.

I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.

I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it's a process I've been doing since I was younger.