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" My dancing is Hawaiian-inspired but I also get a little fresh when it comes to my faster songs. "
Lana Del Rey
Dancing
Faster
Fresh
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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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" 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 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. "
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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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" I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story. "
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" A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York. "
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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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" People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day. "
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Day
Me
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" When I walk outside, people have something to say about it. "
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Something
Say
" 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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Cuba
Miami
Us
" 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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Love
Life
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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
End
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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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Without
My Own
" 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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Father
Myself
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" I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical. "
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Visual
More
Personally
" 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. "
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You
Saying
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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. "
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Every Day
Day
Easy
" There's backlash about everything I do. "
Lana Del Rey
Everything
About
Backlash
" 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 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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School
Art
Believe
" I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic. "
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You
Know
" My music is a luxury. "
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Luxury
Music
" Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past. "
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Youth
Past
Best
" 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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Brooklyn
Good
New York
" I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me. "
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" 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
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" I'm a writer first and a singer second. "
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" 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. "
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Influence
" 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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Editing
My Own
Process
" Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me. "
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Enough