“Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.”
— Lana Del Rey
“Live fast. Die young. Be wild. Have fun.”
“It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is.”
“We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore – except to make our lives into a work of art.”
“When you’re an introvert like me and you’ve been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who understands you, you become really attached to them. It’s a real release.”
“When your happiness is someone else's happiness, that is love.”
“I’ve got a war in my mind.”
“The road is long, we carry on, try to have fun in the meantime.”
“Be like snow – cold, but beautiful.”
“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.”
“Will you still love me when I’m no longer young and beautiful? Will you still love me when I’ve got nothing but my aching soul?”
“I am nostalgic of an era I never knew.”
“I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast I am alone in the night Been trying hard not to get into trouble, but I I’ve got a war in my mind So, I just ride.”
“I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I’m at war with myself I ride, I just ride.”
“I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.”
“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.”
“I’m interested in the gorgeous side of life, but also familiar with the dark side too.”
“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.”
“What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going.”
“Life is beautiful, but you don’t have a clue.”
“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.”
“Einstein said ‘your imagination is more important than intelligence,’ and I have a very, very big imagination.”
“Dark and lonely. I need somebody to hold me.”
“No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do.”
“Loving you forever can’t be wrong. Even though you’re not here, can’t move on.”
“Down on the West Coast I get this feeling like it all could happen.”
“I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality.”
“Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone. Who had nothing, who wanted everything.”
“I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.”
“A man’s ego is just as fragile as a woman’s heart.”
“Me and God we don’t get along.”
“You fit me better than my favorite sweater.”
“Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don’t fail forever.”
“When I was younger I felt lonely. In terms of my thought processes. I had the constant feeling that I thought differently to everyone around me. So, I suppose I felt lonely for a home. I didn’t know where I wanted to be, but I knew I wasn’t there yet.”
“Even if you’re the best singer in the world, there’s a good chance no one will ever hear you.”
“In the land of God’s and Monsters, I was an angel looking to get f-ked hard.”
“I don’t really care about how good a song is, I only want them to reflect what I felt when I was writing them.”
“I’ve clearer idea of how I don’t want to be seen – as someone who does what everyone wants them to.”
“Being an entrepreneur doesn’t make you a rich tycoon and being an innovator doesn’t mean that you’re successful. It just means that you’re interesting.”
“It’s nice to be able to try and build the life you want for yourself.”
“It’s just a relief, really. I’m scared to die, but I want to die.”
“Do you know how expensive it is to look this cheap?”
“Well, I mean, taking time for your art is taking time for yourself, isn’t it?”
“I’m like a child who belongs to nobody.”
“The world needs poetry now more than ever. It’s the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.”
“I know now that it’s really important to feel beautiful. There is a power to that.”
“Money is the anthem, of succes, so put on your mascara and your party dress.”
“I like a little hardcore love.”
“I never stopped writing about what was actually going on in my life. There’s nothing to hide.”
“I only know how to do me, so that’s just what I’m going to do.”
“The angels decided to shine on me for a little while.”
“I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth.”
“Growing up I was always prone to obsession, partly because of the way I am, but partly because after feeling so lonely for such a long time, when I found someone or something that I liked, I felt helplessly drawn to it. I suppose that accounts for some of the creepiness in my music.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Bad things happen everyday but you’re not going to be any happier thinking about them. So I don’t think about them.”
“Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art.”
“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 want to find someone who’s really magnetic but who isn’t going to do anything bad to me. It’s hard.”
“Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.”
“My parents were lovely. They’ve always been supportive. When you love your child, you don’t know what to do with someone who wants to do what no one else does successfully. If I had someone younger I loved, I’d be worried for them too if I didn’t have guidance to give them.”
“No money, no place to live – I’ve been in more dangerous situations than other people.”
“Sold my soul long ago, nothing left to choose. I will follow Satan. Dancing in the dark.”
“In New York I pretty much live in diners – I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.”
“I’m more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what’s going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities.”
“Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.”
“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.”
“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 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.”
“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.”
“I was a different sort of child, as half the children are. I was in that category of being free-spirited.”
“I’m not really interested in a ton of female musicians but there is something about Britney that compelled me – the way she sings and just the way she looks.”
“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.”
“And I really have done everything that I said I did do. The rest is just a story that somebody else made up.”
“My songs are cinematic so they seem to reference a glamorous era or fetishize certain lifestyles, but that’s not my aim.”
“When you long you can not achieve anything when you repeatedly have to lose all that you had hoped, you gradually become still.”
“Pick your role models wisely, find out what they did and do it.”
“Life is a velvet crowbar hitting you over the head, youre bleeding syrup amour, bleeding to death.”
“Cruel World has been my favourite track from Ultraviolence ever since I recorded it.”
“When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying.”
“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!”
“God has saved me a million times, so I think He mustve enjoyed my song.”
“High heels off; I’m feeling alive.”
“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 wanted to be part of a high-class scene of musicians. It was half-inspired because I didn’t have many friends, and I was hoping that I would meet people and fall in love and start a community around me, the way they used to do in the ’60s.”
“Synchronicites. It’s been said that coincidences are God’s way of remaining anonymous. Synchronicities are a sign of divinity. You breathe in deeply and say: ‘I don’t want anything. I’m going to let things happen’”
“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.”
“I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.”
“I’ve been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.”
“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.”
“I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I’m not that comfortable.”
“I’d liked my first record, it was autobiographical and beautiful.”
“I learned that there’s no reason why people decide they like music when they do.”
“I’m not trying to create an image or a persona. I’m just singing because that’s what I know how to do.”
“I’m always just surprised when someone writes something about me.”
“I believe in the country America used to be.”
“I wish I could escape into some alter-ego, just so I could feel more comfortable onstage.”
“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.”
“Sometimes I wish I was a beautiful machine so I could resist your kiss and not cry when you’re mean.”
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