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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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" 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. "

Lana Del Rey

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Saying

My Own

" 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 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. "

" There's backlash about everything I do. "

" 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. "

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

Lana Del Rey

Day

Someone

" 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 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. "

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

" 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 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My music is a luxury. "

Lana Del Rey

Luxury

Music

" 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. "

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

Lana Del Rey

Visual

Personally

" 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 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

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

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

" 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

" Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty. "

Lana Del Rey

Myself

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

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

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

" When I walk outside, people have something to say about it. "

" 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

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

Lana Del Rey

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