#relaationships

You either have the feeling or you don't.

These days, a typical afternoon involves waking up late, drinking coffee, smoking a cigarette on her back porch with O'Neill, and then taking a drive, usually to Malibu and always with Del Rey behind the wheel. He'll hum a song into his iPhone recorder; she'll put in her two cents. Sometimes they'll stop at Neptune's Net, a biker bar at the end of the beach. Del Rey feels connected to motorcycle culture, the freedom of the open road, the nomadic lifestyle. "It's about living for the day, which was my mindset for a long time," she says. Other days, they'll just drive to the ocean, stop on the side of the road, and watch the waves. "We talk about the future, what we want to do, and how we're going to work out everything with timing, since I have a lot of shows coming up," she says. "Driving is our thinking time. Then we'll come back and write. The two initially bonded over a mutual love of Kurt Cobain. “He’s a big part of our daily conversation. Jeff Buckley is another big inspiration. And Jim Morrison--I mean, we talk about these people like we know them. They’re a part of our relationship. We always say, ‘All of our friends are dead, and they never knew us.’ I’m lucky to have met someone who feels that way, too.

Mommy issues are worse than daddy issues."