Lana Del Rey Quotes

"I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic."

"Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past."

"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."

"If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist."

"My music is a luxury."

"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 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."

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

"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."

"There's backlash about everything I do."

"A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York."

"I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves."

"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'm a writer first and a singer second."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies."

"I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful."

"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."

"When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal."

"When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in."

"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."

"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."

"Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me."

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