Lana Del Rey Quotes

When you make music on your own for so long, you get used to just doing whatever you want.

I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'

When I want to put out an album, I want to write it. I want to be able to say that I wrote my album, and all this stuff is from me.

It's really tough to make a name for yourself without compromising and without fitting yourself into a real specific mold. When I made the choice that I would be involved in every aspect of music and not necessarily make music for radio or MTV, I was saying, 'OK, this is me. You decide who it is.'

I've got more creative control when I do music.

The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.

I'm very hands-on with my own music.

I have a lot of creative control, so I can decide what I want to wear, what I want my brand to look like, what I want my songs to sound like, so I don't sound like some fake artist that people can't relate to.

I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.

I sometimes listen to music I made and find it to be something I wouldn't want to buy from a store, if there was a store. When it's like that, you have to make what you want to hear.

I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say.

When I work on my own stuff - and I think this is true for anybody - but when you work on something that you just completely own, you are trying to stay as true to your own storytelling voice as you can.

I never wanted to be a feature - that was never the goal with my music. I didn't want to just live through other people's work.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else.

I don't want people to just hand me music and be like, 'Here, you sound good on this. Sing it.' I want to be able to say, 'This is me.'

I really enjoy the creative freedom that I get when I produce my own projects.

I am not really interested in only showcasing my life or work but plan to produce, write and create work that is solely my vision.

I can only do music if I can do it the way I can do it.

I love writing songs, but I don't want to write the songs everyone else is asking me to write.

In my first label Shrapnel Records I wasn't expected to do anything except the creative music that I wanted to do. I was my own boss, which is great.

If you look at somebody like Bach, he didn't need collaborators to write for keyboards, cello, violin or anything else. I feel the same way about my music. The times that I have worked with other people, I've been very unhappy with the results.

It wasn't slung together by a producer and a publisher. We decided we were going to take hold of our music and let it evolve organically.

I'm not one of those artists that can go away for six months and tour America and have 20 producers back in London or L.A. doing everything for me and I just come home and sing on it. It would be really useful, in terms of speed, to work like that. I just wouldn't find it creatively satisfying. I have to have my hand on the remote control.

My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.