Lana Del Rey: Every now and then the stars align,

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.

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my-family crazy choices

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

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long-ago dancing dark

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

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being-free different children

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.

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dad nice brother

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

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powerful ideas thinking

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.

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writing people years

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

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care writing song

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

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eye dark dream

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

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eye attitude baby

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.

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ocean summer fun

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

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kindness war believe

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.

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amy strong believe

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.

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our-world mistake appreciation

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.

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nice art moving

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

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trust-no-one important imagination

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

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lifestyle eras song

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

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trust-no-one clubs would-be

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

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records beautiful firsts

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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different race feelings

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.

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tough love-is sometimes