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

Del Rey: "Everything I do, I do it for somebody I've never met before, something in the great beyond. That's my primary relationship, really, is with something divine. I feel a connection as real with that as I've ever had with anybody on this earth."

Del Rey: "No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do."

Del Rey: "When you're an introvert like me and you've been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who understands you, you become really attached to them. It's a real release."

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

Del Rey: "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."

Del Rey: "I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality."

Del Rey: "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."

Del Rey: "I'm not like a persona. I'm not a caricature of myself."

Del Rey: "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."

Del Rey: "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."

Del Rey: "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."

Del Rey: "It's just a relief, really. I'm scared to die, but I want to die."

Del Rey: "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."

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

Del Rey: "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."

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

Del Rey: "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."

Del Rey: "I'm interested in the gorgeous side of life, but also familiar with the dark side too."

Del Rey: "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."

Del Rey: "Nothing I ever wrote had a message. It was just my own personal experience."

Del Rey: "When I was younger I felt lonely... In terms of my thought processes. I had the constant feeling that I thought differently to everyone around me. So, I suppose I felt lonely for a home. I didn't know where I wanted to be, but I knew I wasn't there yet."

Del Rey: "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."

Del Rey: "When you have absolutely no idea what's going to happen to you or what your career's going to end up like and you're just really open to anything, then you don't really have anything to loose."

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

Del Rey: "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."

Del Rey: "It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is."

Del Rey: "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."

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

Del Rey: "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."

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

Del Rey: "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."

Del Rey: "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."

Del Rey: "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."

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

Del Rey: "I already have success. I had it a long time ago. It's nothing to do with my music. Music is secondary, at this point. The good stuff is really good, but I have success because I'm at peace and I'm a good person in my everyday life and that's important."

Del Rey: "I wish I could escape into some alter-ego, just so I could feel more comfortable onstage."

Del Rey: "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."

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

Del Rey: "My parents were lovely. They've always been supportive. When you love your child, you don't know what to do with someone who wants to do what no one else does successfully. If I had someone younger I loved, I'd be worried for them too if I didn't have guidance to give them."

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

Del Rey: "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."

Del Rey: "A man's ego is just as fragile as a woman's heart"

Del Rey: "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."

Del Rey: "The angels decided to shine on me for a little while."

Del Rey: "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."

Del Rey: "Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people."

Del Rey: "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."

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

Del Rey: "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."

Del Rey: "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."