Lana Del Rey

Lana Del Rey performing live at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on 10/13/2019.

Lana Del Rey (born Elizabeth Grant; June 21, 1985) is an American singer,songwriter, musician, record producer and poet.

Quotes

• 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.
  • "PM's favourite singer Lana Del Rey ignores the abuse", Evening Standard (24 January 2012), p. 13

• 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.
  • Evening Standard (24 January 2012), p. 13

• 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.
  • Complex (24 January 2012)

• Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.
  • Complex (24 January 2012)

• 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.
  • Daily Mail (25 January 2012)

• 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.
  • Daily Mail (25 January 2012)

• 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.
  • "Lana Del Rey hoped music industry would make her more friends". Digital Spy. Digital Spy Ltd. January 29, 2012.
  • Del Rey explaining why she went into the music industry.

• If all that I was actually going to be allowed to have by the media was money, loads of money, then fuck it … What I actually wanted was something quiet and simple: a writer's community and respect.
  • The Guardian (12 June 2014)

• There is a high fantasy element in the music, but I’m incredibly plugged into what’s going on politically, socially and pretty much in every way except pop-culturally. I’ve had a very real life, and there have been a lot of things that took a lot of strength and wherewithal to figure out… things I’m still figuring out. That’s probably why the music has such an element of escapism to it
  • NME (11 December 2015)
• 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.
  • — Lana Del Rey, “Interview by Ernest Baker,” Complex

• My best friends are rappers my boyfriends have been rappers. My dearest friends have been from all over the place, so before you make comments again about a WOC/POC issue, I’m not the one storming the capital, I’m literally changing the world by putting my life and thoughts and love out there on the table 24 seven. Respect it.
  • [1] (10 January 2021)