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" 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. "
Every Day
Day
Easy
" A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York. "
New
Writing
Love
" Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past. "
Youth
Past
Best
" Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary. "
Same
You
Like
" Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me. "
Me
Career
Enough
" I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic. "
Believe
You
Know
" I didn't live at school, 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. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things. "
Education
Time
School
" 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. "
School
Art
Believe
" 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. "
Movies
Beautiful
Find
" I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things. "
Things
Anything
Strange
" If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist. "
Fight
Born
Stay
" If you consider the definition of authenticity, it's saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic. "
You
Saying
My Own
" 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. "
Love
Life
True Love
" 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. "
Relationship
Me
Influence
" 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. "
Years
Weird
Thought
" 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. "
Know
Think
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. "
Think
Write
Sing
" 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. "
Three
End
Just
" I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me. "
Something
Me
Just
" I'm a writer first and a singer second. "
Writer
Singer
First
" 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. "
Editing
My Own
Process
" I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange. "
Me
Natural
Strange
" I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical. "
Visual
More
Personally
" In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee. "
Live
New
New York
" I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies. "
Film
Like
My Own
" 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. "
Life
Peace
Plan
" I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story. "
Love
Reading
Nine
" I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time. "
Long Time
Writing
Myself
" I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - 'Lana Del Rey' reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue. "
Name
Friends
Cuba
" 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. "
New York
City
Friends
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