Del Rey carves out her own darkly alluring vision of the California dream as she sings about listening to Crosby, Stills, and Nash at house parties and falling for a “self-loathing poet, resident Lauren Canyon know-it-all.”

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Lana Del Rey reposted album by Kali Uchis on her Instagram.

Brooding and nostalgia are the ropes that bind Lana Del Rey to poetic songwriter Leonard Cohen. That and a willingness to describe sex acts performed on unmade beds – as they are in Cohen’s 1974 classic "Chelsea Hotel No. 2." Covered by Del Rey last year, the slow, impossibly sad song refers to intimate details of his romance with Janis Joplin at the New York artists' hangout.

Every shoot I do, I have a theme. I’ve been watching old Spanish films and my new record has a Spanish guitar on it so that actress-signorita vibe so its been on my mind. We always listen to The Eagles “Hotel California” while we get ready.

I think one thing that really affected me was when I was 11, I saw Kurt Cobain singing heart-shaped box on MTV. I saw like the video for it that was something that really struck me.

I had been listening to Dangerous Woman a lot. I got her number at some point and we would chat. And then Thank U, Next came out and I freaking loved that record. Every song, I was like, how did she write that?” Del explains.

She’s really into the singer-songwriter Father John Misty. “Other than Cat Power, he’s my greatest modern day inspiration. I just love him so much.”

Courtney Love is like that, too. I saw her at the Troubadour a few months ago. She’s just still killing it.”

“I love Guns N’ Roses,” she says. “Axl is perfect. He’s exactly what I thought he would be. He’s an inspiration. He goes onstage for three-and-a-half hours every night, you know? He doesn’t get tired. It’s amazing. Stamina.

“That’s why I really liked Cat Power, because I felt like I really understood her,” she says. “She was a person who really meant a lot to me, just knowing that it was okay to start your performance with your back to the audience, at first, if you really couldn’t face it. I mean, a lot of the time I just really felt like, ‘I’m not really sure if I can do it.’ But I mean, I’ve gotten better.”

Her favorite Bruce Springsteen song is “I’m on Fire.” Which makes sense.

ASAP Rocky and Azealia Banks are the only people I relate to these days.

I love him! When I told him I wanted him to play JFK in the video, he was totally down for it. ASAP Rocky and Azealia Banks are the only people I relate to these days.

Favorite movie soundtrack has to be Thomas Newman score for American Beauty still inspiring for me today I'm based half of my record on that sound you know