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" 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 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

Own

Without

My Own

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

" 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 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

" 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. "

" 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

" 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 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. "

" My music is a luxury. "

Lana Del Rey

Luxury

Music

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Lana Del Rey

Something

Just

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

" 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

Said

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

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

Lana Del Rey

Career

Enough