Cruel World has been my favourite track from Ultraviolence ever since I recorded it.

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

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.

Bad things happen everyday but you're not going to be any happier thinking about them. So I don't think about them.

If you're not drinkin', then you're not playin'

Sometimes I wish I was a beautiful machine so I could resist your kiss and not cry when you're mean.

I regret trusting The Guardian. I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [The writer] was masked as a fan, but was hiding sinister ambitions and angles. Maybe he's actually the boring one looking for something interesting to write about.