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Suicide is not cool--this is what Frances Bean Cobain, Kurt Cobain's daughter, told singer Lana Del Ray after the singer said in an interview that she wished she was dead.

In an interview with The Guardian, Del Rey was quoted as saying "I wish I was dead already," while talking about her heroes like Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse--both of whom died very young, at the age of 27.

Frances Bean used Twitter to vent her opinion on the subject: "@LanaDelRey the death of young musicians isn't something to romanticize."

"I'll never know my father because he died young & it becomes a desirable [sic] feet because ppl like you think it's 'cool.'" the 21-year-old daughter of Cobain and Courtney Love added.

Frances Bean was only two years old when Kurt was found dead in his Seattle home. This was later ruled as suicide.

Frances Bean made it clear that she has no animosity towards Del Rey, adding that she was only "trying to put things in perspective from personal experience."

Del Rey later posted a series of now-deleted tweets, saying that she regrets what she said on the Guardian interview, and that she was misquoted.

"I regret trusting The Guardian," said Del Rey as reported by Rolling Stone. "I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. Alexis was masked as a fan, but was hiding sinister ambitions and angles. Maybe he's actually the boring one looking for something interesting to write about."

Note: The writer of the Guardian article was actually Tim Jonze, and not Alexis Petridis (he reviewed her "Ultraviolence" article, also for The Guardian).

Jonze has released a statement with a two-minute recording of his interview with Del Rey. He said: "Ultimately, the problem with Lana's complaint is that she doesn't seem to know what she's actually complaining about ... She's not alleging that I made up her quotes, nor is she claiming that they've been 'twisted' or that we've printed them out of context."

Del Rey responded again to the tweets on Monday, June 23, telling Frances bean that "it's all good." She explained that the writer was asking her a lot of questions about the late Nirvana frontman--"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," Del Rey added.