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" I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic. "
Lana Del Rey
Believe
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" I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary. "
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" When I walk outside, people have something to say about it. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Art
Believe
" There's backlash about everything I do. "
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" I'm a writer first and a singer second. "
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" Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past. "
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" In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee. "
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New
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" My music is a luxury. "
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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. "
Lana Del Rey
Every Day
Day
Easy
" When I put out 'Video Games' in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens! "
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" 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. "
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House
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" 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. "
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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. "
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Things
Anything
Strange
" 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. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive. "
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" I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time. "
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" Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me. "
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" I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Three
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" 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. "
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" If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist. "
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Stay
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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