Top 207 Quotes & Sayings by Lana Del Rey - Page 3

High heels off; I'm feeling alive.

I am usually always singing about the same god damn person so I will love him forever but you know, it's all good. It's all good!

Do you know how expensive it is to look this cheap?

I guess my strongest recurring theme is honoring love, even when it's lost.

Einstein said 'your imagination is more important than intelligence,' and I have a very, very big imagination.

My mum and my dad they both like to sing they have really nice voices and my sister and my brother actually they are good singers too. I've been really blessed actually more than most to have a really good people around me.

And I really have done everything that I said I did do. The rest is just a story that somebody else made up.

I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale.

I'm not really interested in a ton of female musicians but there is something about Britney that compelled me - the way she sings and just the way she looks.

When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying.

Don't make me sad, don't make me cry. Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough, I don't know why.

My understanding of God has come from my own personal experiences. Because I was in trouble so many times in New York that if you were me, you would believe in God too.

I have a great appreciation for our world's history. I learn from my own mistakes, I learn from the mistakes we've made as a human race.

Dope and diamonds, dope and diamonds, that's all that I want

I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I'm at war with myself I ride, I just ride.

I was a different sort of child, as half the children are. I was in that category of being free-spirited.

I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast I am alone in the night Been trying hard not to get into trouble, but I I've got a war in my mind So, I just ride

I think the thing I really got from Ginsberg was that you can tell a story through kind of painting pictures with words. And when I found out that you could have a profession doing that, it was thrilling to me. It just became my passion immediately, playing with words and poetry.

I think America is amazing for its landscape and its history. California is beautiful, New York is beautiful, but when you're a gypsy at heart, it probably suits you to be traveling.

It's more about, when I found someone that made me feel really happy, that was so different to the way I'd felt before in my life.

I believe that there is no doubts about who I am, an artist who loves music, above everything.

[Could you show us how Lana Del Rey dances in a club?] That would be illegal.

I'd been sick on tour for about two years with this medical anomaly that doctors couldn't figure out. That's a big part of my life: I just feel really sick a lot of the time and can't figure out why. I'd gotten these shots in Russia, where we'd just been. It was just heavy. It's just heavy performing for people who really care about you, and you don't really care that much about yourself sometimes.

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 regret trusting The Guardian. I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [The writer] was masked as a fan, but was hiding sinister ambitions and angles. Maybe he's actually the boring one looking for something interesting to write about.

I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.

I've making videos since I was seventeen I was originally discollecting vintage hmmm... footages from different archives and setting moving pictures to classical music clips that meant a lot to me. Maybe there were places I have been where nice things have happened. I had a vision of making my life a work of art and I was looking for people who also felt that way.

I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable.

I'm like a child who belongs to nobody.

Sold my soul long ago, nothing left to choose. I will follow Satan. Dancing in the dark.

I don't even do anything in real life. I just sit in my studio and write, I call my friends, I watch television. I don't do anything.

As soon as the first person wrote about me, the articles became just blatant, all-out lies. I consider it slander. If I cared more, I'd kill them.

I still have my same babysitting job, I babysit twice a week.

I'm feelin' electric tonight Cruising down the coast goin' 'bout 99 Got my bad baby by my heavenly side I know if I go, I'll die happy tonight

I don't really care about how good a song is, I only want them to reflect what I felt when I was writing them

The thing about me is, coming from an alternative music background and singing for nine years, being basically invisible, I'm so used to writing for myself - and at the end of the day, I do it because I feel like I have to. So when I'm recording or writing, I don't have other people in mind.

I listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called 'Teen Idle' that I really like.

Every time I close my eyes, it's like a dark paradise. No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight

A lot of what's been written about me is not true: of my family history or my choices or my interests. Actually, I've never read anything written about me that was true. It's been completely crazy.

I was never successful in a noteworthy way, no one wrote about me, and I didn't have recognition. I've met a lot of musicians along the way who thought I was good, and they knew that was important to me. Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

My songs are cinematic so they seem to reference a glamorous era or fetishize certain lifestyles, but that's not my aim.

I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth.

I feel a strong relationship with God and I feel my ties are with him. That's how I honestly feel.

That love doesn’t come easily and that relationships are supposed to be a struggle. Everything else is so hard; hopefully love is the one thing that is actually fun.

In the land of God's and Monsters, I was an angel looking to get f-ked hard.

I entered a songwriting competition, I didn't win, and one of the judges on the panel was an A&R man at a record label that had no other acts and I signed to them. We sent my demo out to five people and David Kahne got back to me that day, and said I think you're amazing I want to start with you tomorrow. He was like my Harvard reach school, I couldn't believe it. I was really excited. It was the first time anyone of any importance said I was good and I ran with that validation for a long time.

For me, the issue of feminism is just not an interesting concept... Whenever people bring up feminism, I’m like, god. I’m just not really that interested.

I'm not like a persona. I'm not a caricature of myself.

I'd liked my first record, it was autobiographical and beautiful.

I'm happy when things are just kind of calm. I love going to the ocean. I love driving. I love going to shows. Just being with people I really have fun with. I love the summer. I'm happy in the summer. Love hot, hot weather. I'm happy when I'm making a record, most of the time.

I'm not trying to create an image or a persona. I'm just singing because that's what I know how to do.

Cruel World has been my favourite track from Ultraviolence ever since I recorded it.

Life is a velvet crowbar hitting you over the head, youre bleeding syrup amour, bleeding to death.

I got my red dress on tonight Dancing in the dark in the pale moonlight Done my hair up real big beauty queen style High heels off, I'm feeling alive

I believe in Amy Winehouse. I know she’s not with us anymore but I believe she was who she was and in that way she got it right. I would say an actress like Lauren Bacall also got it right. She never let anyone persuade her to be something she wasn't. She was strong. She always looked like she knew what she was doing.

The act of surrendering sort of puts me in a different mindset that allows me to be more of a channel - because I'm not holding on so tightly to things, I'm letting go, and I find that in letting go I become more of a channel for life to really happen on life's terms. I mean, maybe that sounds sort of metaphysical, but that's honestly how I feel.

It's not like I think my art is inspirations from icons strung together. They're just sort of people who others talk about. I am definitely interested in the masters of different genres, they're talented and popular for a reason.

No money, no place to live – I’ve been in more dangerous situations than other people.

My baby lives in shades of blue, blue eyes and jazz and attitude.

I sing the National Anthem, while I'm standing, over your body, hold you like a python.