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" I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story. "
Lana Del Rey
Love
Reading
Nine
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" I'm a writer first and a singer second. "
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Singer
First
" I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange. "
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Me
Natural
Strange
" People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day. "
Lana Del Rey
Day
Me
Someone
" Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me. "
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Me
Career
Enough
" 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
You
Saying
My Own
" Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past. "
Lana Del Rey
Youth
Past
Best
" In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee. "
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Live
New
New York
" 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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Life
Peace
Plan
" 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
Us
" 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. "
Lana Del Rey
House
Someone
Never
" 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. "
Lana Del Rey
New York
City
Friends
" I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic. "
Lana Del Rey
Believe
You
Know
" 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. "
Lana Del Rey
Years
Weird
Thought
" If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist. "
Lana Del Rey
Fight
Born
Stay
" 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. "
Lana Del Rey
Father
Myself
Believe
" Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty. "
Lana Del Rey
Me
Am
Myself
" 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! "
Lana Del Rey
Song
Me
Said
" 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. "
Lana Del Rey
Brooklyn
Good
New York
" 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
Me
Music
World
" My music is a luxury. "
Lana Del Rey
Luxury
Music
" I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me. "
Lana Del Rey
Something
Me
Just
" 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. "
Lana Del Rey
Know
Think
Writing
" 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
Me
Influence
" 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. "
Lana Del Rey
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. "
Lana Del Rey
Three
End
Just
" 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. "
Lana Del Rey
Editing
My Own
Process
" 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
" 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. "
Lana Del Rey
Love
Life
True Love
" I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical. "
Lana Del Rey
Visual
More
Personally
" There's backlash about everything I do. "
Lana Del Rey
Everything
About
Backlash