Lisa Marie Presley Quotes
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Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame.
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I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.
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I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out.
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I've been through so much in my life. I've seen so much. I know how fast things can change. I know someone can be here one minute and gone the next.
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I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.
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I think having kids just makes you want to do things to help people. You have children, and you see how fragile and innocent and helpless they are when they first start out. If they are going to be a victim of whatever they are surrounded by, I just do everything I can to try to make whatever change I can.
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I have, in the past, been attracted to really strong and dominant men. But on the other side, I have been attracted to very androgynous men. I don't typically fall for your average jock. I just like people that are a little atypical.
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I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.
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Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music.
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I went through a huge transition in my life where everything and everyone I knew and trusted didn't turn out to be that way.
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I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.
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It's hard for me to be happy because I'm always worried about something going awry or what could happen to screw it up. It's hard for me to sit and look around, going, 'Ah, I'm really happy.' I'm not that kind of person.
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I'm one of those people that, if I hear about something happening, I go crazy. I want to go help.
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Anybody in the spotlight can get lost in that if they are not careful.
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I don't think that I'm a top 40 artist in any way. So I don't think I'm that mainstream.
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I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.
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I'm trying to have my own thing, and I don't know if it's even possible. I didn't realize so many people actually think I'm trying to be like my dad. I read comments like 'She's no Elvis.' I'm not trying to be. I never set out to be.
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I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.
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I want to write, I want to sing. I want to do the same thing for others, have my music, hopefully do that for others one day, not realizing what I sort of had to climb. I had an idea a little bit, but I think that I underestimated the whole thing.
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I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't exercise.
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Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.
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How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way.
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I'm a lot of work.
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I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories.