Lisa Marie Presley Quotes

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• I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.

  

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  • Good
  • Work

• I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I'm in, that I'd attract more critics than your average person, and that was a little intimidating, but I wanted to get out there and pay my dues.

  

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• When I'm doing interviews, I'm doing interviews, and when I am writing, I'm writing. I sit there with a musician and I write. It's the same process since I started writing in my twenties. I like to come in and leave with a finished song.

  

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  • Writing
  • Song

• I have loved music so much from when I was little, and I don't know whether it was because I saw my dad doing it and then I got the idea; I don't know what came first... But I always had a hairbrush in the mirror singing. I was always with him backstage; I would go out and be pulled in for the last song.

  

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  • Music
  • Song
  • Dad

• I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time.

  

  Lisa Marie Presley
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Today

• I think people think I'm harder and more arrogant and cocky than I am - because I know how to put on a front, but it's nothing like who I am inside.

  

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  • People
  • Cocky

• I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.

  

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  • Art
  • Positive
  • Nasty

• On my US tour maybe three out of 30 shows there was an Elvis impersonator in the crowd but that's it. I usually get younger fans, and those that come that are of an older generation end up walking out because it's too loud.

  

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  • Up
  • Walking

• I never not wanted to be a singer. Since I was 3, I knew this was what I wanted to do. Well, I can't say I wanted to do it, but I fantasized and thought about it all the time. I never thought it would actually happen.

  

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  • Time

• I would describe my aesthetic as definitely personal and harmonious with an eclectic yet bohemian sensibility.

  

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  • Aesthetic

• Between all four children and my husband, I don't get to do much. But when I am in England, I cook and I garden, and it's much more calming and relaxed.

  

  Lisa Marie Presley
  • Children
  • Husband
  • Garden

• I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I'm not proud of this, and I'm not trying to promote it.

  

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  • Trying
  • School
  • Proud

• Being Elvis Presley's daughter is a whole lot of pressure. It's been a constant burden in my life.

  

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  • Life
  • Daughter

• I've never even been out of my BMI range. I'm 5-foot-3. If I gain five pounds, it shows.

  

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• People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird stuff happened. But there was no conscience involved; that threw me more than anything.

  

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  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I'm more prone to his '70s material, which is what I was around for and watched a lot. I listen to a lot of that stuff. It probably influenced me quite a bit. I'm more drawn to the darker, sadder songs.

  

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• I have always been a singer/songwriter, and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty. I don't belong there.

  

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• I'm more of a tomboy than anything and then you see your name on these Top 50 Most Beautiful People lists and you're like, 'What?'

  

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  • People
  • Beautiful

• I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy.

  

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  • People
  • Happy

• I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.

  

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  • Picture
  • Baby

• I'm not doing this to be a pop star. I've had plenty of money and attention. I'm doing it for credibility.

  

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  • Money
  • Attention
  • Star

• I've been through a lot of stuff.

  

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• With a lot of hair and make-up then I'm possibly, remotely attractive. But it's rare, I don't think I'm ugly but I'm nothing particularly special. I'm not a yoga and health girl. I don't exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails.

  

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  • Girl
  • Health

• I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time.

  

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  • Life
  • Time
  • Music