Lana Del Rey
35 quotes
Biography
"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 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."
"Who are you?Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?I have. I am fucking crazy.But I am free."
"I was always an unusual girl.My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean."
"Live fast. Die young. Be wild. Have fun."
"We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art."
"No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight."
"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"
"Loving you forever can't be wrong. Even though you're not here, can't move on"
"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."
"Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it."
"I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken.But I didn't really mind, because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is."
"Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go."
"The road is long, we carry on, try to have fun in the meantime."
"I have everything I want. I really can't think of any ambitions or things to strive for. I don't want to leave the house, I'm happy at home, I really am. I am."
"I've been living in New York for about seven years and a lot of the people that I started singing with don't sing any more, don't write any more. So the fact that I can still do that that's kind of a gift, that's what I sort of stay focused on."
"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."
"Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people."
"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."
"I wanted to be part of a high-class scene of musicians. It was half-inspired because I didn't have many friends, and I was hoping that I would meet people and fall in love and start a community around me, the way they used to do in the '60s."
"In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee."
"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."
"Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won't fail forever."
"Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone.Who had nothing, who wanted everything."
"Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness."