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

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Love, My Life, Alive, Though

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

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Artist, Choice, Born, No Choice

Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn't ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

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Love, Doing, Make-Up, Stylistically

When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.

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New, Other, Devoted, Good Friends

Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

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Same, Necessary, Same Thing, Respected

I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.

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Thought, Release, Maybe, Waited

I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - Lana Del Rey reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.

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Miami, Tongue, Lot, Cuba

I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - 'Lana Del Rey' reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.

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Miami, Tongue, Lot, Cuba

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

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Someone, Always, About, Writes

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.

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Night, Every Day, Reason, Flannel

I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

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Natural, Performer, Younger, Exhibitionist

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty.

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Myself, I Am, Seeing, Cringe

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

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More, Personally, Musical, Struck

I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

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Old, About, Them, Old Movies

My dancing is Hawaiian-inspired but I also get a little fresh when it comes to my faster songs.

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Dancing, Songs, Faster, Fresh

I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic.

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Thought, Everyone, Images, Psychotic

In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

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New, Pretty, Floats, French

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

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My Own, Like, Set, Classical Music

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

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Best, Past, Nostalgia, Draws

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

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Mistake, Nothing, Dramatic, I Believe

I was always singing but didn't plan on pursuing it seriously. When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.

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City, Other, Pursuing, Good Friends

I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

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Treat, About, Knocks, Do You Know

When I put out 'Video Games' in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!

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Love, Video, Put, Surprised

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.

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Die, Fact, Very, Philosophical

If you consider the definition of authenticity, it's saying something and actually doing 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.

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Doing, Own, I Write, Producers

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

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My Own, Made, I Write, Producers

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

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Singing, Doing, Think, Pursued

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.

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My Life, Used, Within, Wonder

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.

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Love, My Life, Honestly, True Love

I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.

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Like, Karl, Figure, Emulate

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