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

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.

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

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

When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.

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.

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.