H. A. Rey Quotes

People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. You know what makes you stronger? When people treat you & your art with dignity.

People have offered me opportunities in exchange for sleeping with them. But it's not 1952 anymore.

Loving you forever can't be wrong. Even though you're not here, can't move on

Pick your role models wisely, find out what they did and do it.

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

I just look for someone who makes me feel like life is an exciting opportunity and, you know, just like to be alive.

I found it hard to make friends in school, because I was a cerebral person.

I've clearer idea of how I don't want to be seen - as someone who does what everyone wants them to.

It's amazing what happens when you put your interests out into the universe and make it known what you want.

I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

when your happiness is someone else's happiness, that is love

My idea of a true feminist is a woman who feels free enough to do whatever she wants.

I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we're even alive at all.

I was, you know, a mess. I totally wanted to kill myself every day.

I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical.

You do things so fast, you end up having so many different lifestyles all in one short time.

God has saved me a million times, so I think He mustve enjoyed my song.

My understanding of God has come from my own personal experiences. Because I was in trouble so many times in New York that if you were me, you would believe in God too.

In the land of God's and Monsters, I was an angel looking to get f-ked hard.

Dark and lonely. I need somebody to hold me

Money is the anthem, of succes, so put on your mascara and your party dress

Nothing I ever wrote had a message. It was just my own personal experience.

I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.

Do you know how expensive it is to look this cheap?

I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

[About Paz De La Huerta....] And there is this girl in the audience and she's gorgeous I can only kind of see her silhouette and she's getting like her t*ts out and I'm like: God, that's unusual.

Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.

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

I'm like a child who belongs to nobody.

I don't even do anything in real life. I just sit in my studio and write, I call my friends, I watch television. I don't do anything.

For me, the issue of feminism is just not an interesting concept... Whenever people bring up feminism, I’m like, god. I’m just not really that interested.

I'm not trying to create an image or a persona. I'm just singing because that's what I know how to do.

[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself.

I guess my strongest recurring theme is honoring love, even when it's lost.

[About her boyfriend Barrie] We kick each others asses. We give each other input every night.

I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

It's more about, when I found someone that made me feel really happy, that was so different to the way I'd felt before in my life.

I think America is amazing for its landscape and its history. California is beautiful, New York is beautiful, but when you're a gypsy at heart, it probably suits you to be traveling.

Einstein said 'your imagination is more important than intelligence,' and I have a very, very big imagination.

I'm not really interested in a ton of female musicians but there is something about Britney that compelled me - the way she sings and just the way she looks.

A lot of the reason my look is the way it is, is because it's really easy to put on a sundress every night if I have to perform - or just wear jeans every day and a flannel or something.

I still have my same babysitting job, I babysit twice a week.

I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast I am alone in the night Been trying hard not to get into trouble, but I I've got a war in my mind So, I just ride

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.

Being an entrepreneur doesn't make you a rich tycoon and being an innovator doesn't mean that you're successful. It just means that you're interesting.

Every time I close my eyes, it's like a dark paradise. No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight

With some of the bad things that come with love, there's also a lot of good. For example that connection... which I struggle to have with most people.

I am usually always singing about the same god damn person so I will love him forever but you know, it's all good. It's all good!