“Trust no one.”
“Pick your role models wisely, find out what they did and do it.”
“Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.”
“What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going.”
“Einstein said ‘your imagination is more important than intelligence,’ and I have a very, very big imagination.”
“First movie I made out to? Funny enough, it was like a movie about a submarine…..All I know I was kissing the most gorgeous guy in school and I was like ‘How the f*ck did this happen?”
“The world needs poetry now more than ever. It’s the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.”
“Well, I mean, taking time for your art is taking time for yourself, isn’t it?”
“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is so not true. You know what makes you stronger? When people treat you & your art with dignity.”
“Bad things happen everyday but you’re not going to be any happier thinking about them. So I don’t think about them.”
“I still have my same babysitting job, I babysit twice a week.”
“It’s amazing what happens when you put your interests out into the universe and make it known what you want.”
“I’m interested in the gorgeous side of life, but also familiar with the dark side too.”
“I don’t like live television, the only tip I have is just pray.”
“[About Paz De La Huerta….] And there is this girl in the audience and she’s gorgeous I can only kind of see her silhouette and she’s getting like her t*ts out and I’m like: God, that’s unusual.”
“Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.”
“I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.”
“My vision is complete. My life is f*cking me.”
“[Could you show us how Lana Del Rey dances in a club?] That would be illegal.”
“[About her boyfriend Barrie] We kick each others asses. We give each other input every night.”
“I’m the gangsta Nancy Sinatra.”
“I’m a psycho.”
“I know now that it’s really important to feel beautiful. There is a power to that.”
“I found it hard to make friends in school, because I was a cerebral person.”
“It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it to know what true freedom is.”
“When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying.”
“I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.”
“I just look for someone who makes me feel like life is an exciting opportunity and, you know, just like to be alive.”
“[About being a teenager] Like, at first it’s fine and you think you have a dark side – it’s exciting – and then you realise the dark side wins every time.”
“I listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called ‘Teen Idle’ that I really like.”
“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.”
“You do things so fast, you end up having so many different lifestyles all in one short time.”
“I’ve clearer idea of how I don’t want to be seen – as someone who does what everyone wants them to.”
“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!”
“I’ve making videos since I was seventeen I was originally discollecting vintage hmmm… footages from different archives and setting moving pictures to classical music clips that meant a lot to me. Maybe there were places I have been where nice things have happened. I had a vision of making my life a work of art and I was looking for people who also felt that way.”
“My mum and my dad they both like to sing they have really nice voices and my sister and my brother actually they are good singers too. I’ve been really blessed actually more than most to have a really good people around me.”
“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!”