Thursday 5th June 2014 by Alexandra Pollard | Photos by WENN.com

The 16 most Lana Del Rey things Lana Del Rey has ever said

'Tigers and women can't be in the same room'

"My Muse is very fickle. She only comes to me sometimes, which is annoying."

"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."

"I like a little hardcore love."

"I had a vision of making my life a work of art."

"I'm an independent operator. It's just fucking different. I never wanted to lead a normal life."

"I'm thinking most of the time, so it doesn't really lend to a smile."

"I'd like to work with Elvis. I'd like to fucking do things with Elvis. I'd like to make out with Elvis."

"Tigers and women can't be in the same room. Even if the tiger is a female. Because the pheromones a girl puts off - the tiger will eat them."

"I've been making moving collages online since I was 17. It's just a passion of mine."

"I was singing in Paris a couple months ago for Thanksgiving. There's this girl in the audience and she's gorgeous. I can kind of only see her silhouette, she's getting, like, her tits out. I'm like, 'God, that's unusual.'So I go offstage, I go upstairs, and my manager's like, 'You'll never believe it, but Paz De La Huerta was getting her tits out to the song!' I was like, 'My vision is complete. My life is f***ing made.' And so I've been at peace ever since that moment."

"A$AP Rocky and Azealia Banks are the only people I relate to these days."

"Death and paradise are are intertwined to me. After death, I expect something that is very serene and calm."

"The internet is something abstract that I probably haven't understood until now. Who are all of the people that are seeing my videos? I know neither them nor their faces which makes my success seem surreal."

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

"I'm the gangster Nancy Sinatra."

"For me, the issue of feminism is just not an interesting concept. I'm more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what's going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities."

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Let's get one thing straight before we start. Lana Del Rey is a brilliant musician. She's innovative, brooding, ethereal and extremely talented. She also believes tigers and women can't be in the same room, you can't be interested in both feminism AND intergalactic exploration, and describes her life as a "work of art."

Almost every interview with Del Rey includes at least one quote that you have to go back over three times because you think you must have misread it. You haven't. These quotes aren't arrogant or obnoxious in the vein of Johnny Borrell or Morrissey - they're just... perplexing. Strange. Other-wordly. Never before has a woman so perfectly trod the line between profound and nonsensical.