229 Quotes by Lana Del Rey

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

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

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

"I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies."

"Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing."

"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."

"I was always singing but didn't plan on pursuing it seriously. When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it."

"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 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."