On Alcoholism
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Towards the end of our conversation in LA, we head outside to the car park for a cigarette break. "It's part of my process, unfortunately," she apologises. She took up smoking at around the same time she gave up drinking, when she was 18. "I used to drink a lot and now I don't drink at all," she says. Was there a catalyst for that decision? "My whole life was the catalyst. It was a mess." She thinks for a moment and says, "I did lose my car, my family's car. That was not a good thing. I guess that was a catalyst." I wonder if this is a euphemism for crashing it, but it's more prosaic. "I forgot where I put it." She sighs and smiles ruefully.
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On The Critics
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"Read everything and assume the opposite, then you'll really know who I am." She gives a thin smile. "It really doesn't matter what I say." Tattooed on the side of one hand is the word "Paradise" - a recurring idea in her work - on the other, "Trust no one".
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On SNL reaction
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"None of it ever seemed to make any sense," Del Rey says, reflecting on the intensity of her reception, halting between words. "I'm not a provocateur. I love to write. The written word is one of the last forms of magic we have. I love rhyming and writing. For years my focus was on building a beautiful visual world and beautiful sonic world and yeah, having such a strong reaction was ... surprising? I don't know."
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On Gene (her teacher) *Prom Song Gone Wrong plays in the background*
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"I was lonely," she says, but "I had this teacher who was my only friend in school. His name was Gene. He read us Leaves of Grass and we read Lolita in class, and it changed my world, which was a really solitary world. I didn't have a connection to anyone in class and when I found these writers, I knew they were my people." Gene was just a few years older than her, fresh from Georgetown University. "He would sign me out and we would listen to Tupac and stuff in his car," she remembers, "and he would teach me about old movies like Citizen Kane. He taught me everything."
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Other Info from the interview:
- She was yalking with John Ehmann at interscope since Diet MTN Dew was uploaded.
- Period of writer’s block while touring after Born To Die
- Her mom taught at the school she attended
- "Nina Bella" tattoo is actually "Nina Billie" after Nina Simone and Billie holiday
- Rented trailer halfway through college for $400 a month
http://www.theage.com.au/entertainme...505-37r6n.html
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And finally we have a name for Mr. Campbell. Amazing interview. 
Is the good sis an X-Files fan? 
