Lana Del Rey: I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my pr...

Sometimes, love feels like a life or death situation. Losing true love is pretty much as bad as it gets, other than actually dying or losing good health. Most people know that. Most people can relate. It's like the end of the world.

Lana Del Rey

dying love-is people

I've clearer idea of how I don't want to be seen - as someone who does what everyone wants them to.

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trust-no-one doe ideas

With some of the bad things that come with love, there's also a lot of good. For example that connection... which I struggle to have with most people.

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example struggle people

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.

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confused office believe

I just look for someone who makes me feel like life is an exciting opportunity and, you know, just like to be alive.

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trust-no-one alive opportunity

We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.

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nothing-to-lose gains art

[About her boyfriend Barrie] We kick each others asses. We give each other input every night.

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trust-no-one giving night

People have offered me opportunities in exchange for sleeping with them. But it's not 1952 anymore.

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sleep opportunity people

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.

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role-models roles book

I sort of do what I say and say what I do which I'm happy with because it makes my life real easy. When I was younger, people would say that I was inspired by David Lynch, so I went and watched his stuff and I was surprised. I thought it was smart, with what I was trying to do lyrically. So I started watching some of his stuff. I've never seen his movies in [their] entirety, I'm more interested in him as a person and how he came to be successful taking an alternative route, sort of a subculture icon.

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smart real successful

I want to find someone who's really magnetic but who isn't going to do anything bad to me. It's hard.

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magnetic hard want

I’ve been really blessed to have a lot of romance in my life. It’s like my last luxury.

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luxury romance blessed

I know now that it's really important to feel beautiful. There is a power to that.

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trust-no-one important beautiful

Loving you forever can't be wrong. Even though you're not here, can't move on

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loving-you forever moving

Growing up I was always prone to obsession, partly because of the way I am, but partly because after feeling so lonely for such a long time, when I found someone or something that I liked, I felt helplessly drawn to it. I suppose that accounts for some of the creepiness in my music.

Lana Del Rey

found-someone growing-up lonely

I believe in free love and that's just how I feel. It's just my experience of being with different kinds of men and being born without a preference for a certain type of person. For me, that is my story in finding love in lots of different people, and that's been the second biggest influence in my music.

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men believe people

I'm more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what's going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities.

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anti-feminist tesla possibility

I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we're even alive at all.

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trust-no-one hopeful alive

In the end, I find my influences or inspirations where I can.

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influence inspiration ends

[About being a teenager] Like, at first it's fine and you think you have a dark side - it's exciting - and then you realise the dark side wins every time.

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trust-no-one teenager dark

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.