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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. "

Lana Del Rey

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Cuba

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

Lana Del Rey

Career

Enough

" 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. "

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

" I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Lana Del Rey

Same

You

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" My music is a luxury. "

Lana Del Rey

Luxury

Music

" 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 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. "

Lana Del Rey

Relationship

Influence

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

Lana Del Rey

Film

My Own

" 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. "

Lana Del Rey

Music

World

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

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

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

" 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. "

Lana Del Rey

Cuba

Miami

" I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time. "

" 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. "

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

Lana Del Rey

Day

Someone

" There's backlash about everything I do. "

" I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical. "

Lana Del Rey

Visual

Personally

" 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. "

" 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'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me. "

Lana Del Rey

Something

Just

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