Del Rey feels 'unworthy' of magazine cover
Songstress Lana Del Rey has made her debut on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine - but it almost didn't happen.
Del Rey felt she wasn't worthy of such an honour and tried to cancel the cover photo shoot.
"I'm not sure if they should run this story," she told Rolling Stone writer Brian Hiatt.
"I feel like maybe we should wait until there's something good to talk about," the singer says on RollingStone.com.
In the magazine's accompanying interview, Del Rey talks about love, death and her state of mind.
"I feel f***ing crazy," she told Hiatt. "But I don't think I am. People make me feel crazy."
The Young and Beautiful hitmaker recently found herself in some trouble for saying "I wish I was dead already" in an interview with the Guardian.
She may find herself in hot water again as she revisited this sentiment in the Rolling Stone article: "I find that most people I meet figure I kind of want to kill myself anyway," she told the US magazine.
Del Rey's original comment to the Guardian came under fire from Francis Cobain, the only daughter of late Nirvana rocker Kurt Cobain, for "romanticising" early death.
"The death of young musicians isn't something to romanticise. I'll never know my father because he died young and it becomes a desirable feat because people like you think it's `cool', Cobain tweeted in June.
The 21-year-old soon deleted the tweets, but later clarified that she was not attacking Del Rey personally, writing: "I have no animosity towards Lana, I was just trying to put things in perspective from personal experiences."
Del Rey responded to the tweets later, insisting that she was not glamorising dying young.
"It's all good. He was asking me a lot about your dad I said I liked him because he was talented not because he died young the other half of what I said wasn't really related to the people he mentioned. I don't find that part of music glam either," she wrote.
The next issue of Rolling Stone magazine will be released in the US on Friday July 18.
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