Lana Del Rey seems to be bothering everybody because she allegedly remade herself from a folk singing, girl-next-door type into an electro-urban kitty cat on the prowl (of course I like her), and they feel she is inauthentic.

It seems to me like the Internet allows you to break that structure a little bit. You know, here's your CD that's going into stores, here's your EP that you offer online, here's a subscription for songs you recorded on the road, here's your live stuff streaming.

I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.

I don't mind people not liking me as long as there's mutual respect.

I don't have the same access or time to gain access to music the way I used to.

The license said you had to stick around until I was dead, but if you're tired of looking at my face I guess I already am.

People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that.