I don't really care about how good a song is, I only want them to reflect what I felt when I was writing them
Live fast. Die young. Be wild. Have fun.
It's just a relief, really. I'm scared to die, but I want to die.
A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
[Could you show us how Lana Del Rey dances in a club?] That would be illegal.
I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale.