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Quotes by Lisa Marie Presley

A couple of months ago I hauled my white ass on stage alongside Chaka Khan and Stevie Wonder for Divas Las Vegas, singing in front of a celebrity audience. If I can hold my own there, I can hold my own at Top of the Pops, trust me.
– Lisa Marie Presley
After my father died, I stayed relatively sane for two years, although I did lose my noodle at summer camp right after my dad's death. But when I hit 12, 13, that was it. I hated my mom's boyfriend, and there was a lot of control on me. I didn't like that, so I rebelled.
– Lisa Marie Presley
Anything my father did for me or gave me was done out of love. I'm sure I had moments when I was a snot. But my mom was there to smack me back to the other side.
– Lisa Marie Presley
Being Elvis Presley's daughter is a whole lot of pressure. It's been a constant burden in my life.
– Lisa Marie Presley
Demented. My sense of humor is only based on irony and insanity. Something completely nosequitor will make me die laughing.
– Lisa Marie Presley
Facing the press is endlessly daunting for me. But I am learning to use it to my advantage. If the tabloids come up with the latest ridiculous lie about me - and they always do - then now I can rectify it the following week in a proper interview with a serious newspaper. That's a novelty.
– Lisa Marie Presley
For some reason, when I turned 30 I became a teenager again and it wasn't really by my own will, it just happened. I married and had my first baby at 21, so I had it together early on. But I started acting about 15 again when I turned 30. So I guess that makes me 19 now.
– Lisa Marie Presley
For the record, Lights Out is not about my father. It was written because producer Glen Ballard wanted me to write a song like that. I revolted against the idea, but I knew I could I get his attention if I did it. I wrote it in like 45 minutes; the lyrics just came out. I thought if I was going to write it, I would come at it from a weird way. Everybody seems to like it, and the songs haunted me since then.
– Lisa Marie Presley
Having kids was the smartest thing I've ever done. They're little sponges who come into the world with a clean, shiny slate and such pureness. I'm interested in having more kids.
– Lisa Marie Presley
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.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I also did a record because, as I've said, music has had such a huge impact on me all my life, and my hope was to affect others musically the way I was affected.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I come from a different situation than most people. I've been handed a different set of chips, and I've tried to find my way with it. Unfortunately, it's been in front of the public, but it's a genuine search to find the right mate. It's just that I can't quite find the right way to go because of the situation I've been handed.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I did go through a Goth thing, but that was a long time ago. I just like artists that shake it up, that piss people off or make people think or rattle the cage somehow.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I didn't actually aim to be some chart-topper, pop act sell-out person. I put out what I felt was a credible album, and I wanted it to be recognized as such, and that's pretty much what I got. The record company can worry about the other stuff. To be honest, I didn't really want to have a No. 1 and not be able to follow it up. I wanted the credibility, and that's what I got.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I didn't make this record to set the record straight or anything. I just wanted to put something out there, and I'm glad I have. I'd be having much more fun with all this if I was in the least bit vain or desperate for attention, but I'm not, so, you know ..
– Lisa Marie Presley
I do feel relieved. I do feel like I did what I needed to do for myself, and for whoever's out there who wants to be moved by me. I aimed it at people who are willing to be moved by music as I have in my life. It's more about the music for me. It is a relief.
– Lisa Marie Presley
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.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't exercise.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I don't respond to music that's not honest, and music's had a huge influence on my whole life. It's gotten me through everything. I don't respond to music that's full of crap . Since it's also a therapeutic and cathartic thing for me to write, I'm not going to go halfway or be some puffball.
– Lisa Marie Presley
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.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I got an early education on how bad men and women can act. Most of those people were sucking the life out of him.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I guess having kids when you're young, you have to grow up with them. I had my daughter at 21. They had to watch me go through stuff. It's like, I'm still finding my way, and I made a lot of mistakes.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I guess I don't get inspired to write when I'm happy. And I don't respond to music that I don't feel was honestly pulled from a genuine place. I'm very much influenced by Roger Waters and Pink Floyd.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I had anything but a happy childhood. Two words: lonely and deep. I was very lonely and way too deep for someone so young.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I had no interest in hanging out with other celebrity kids, and I was certainly no cheerleader, so I started mixing with outsiders. I was very into all kinds of experimentation.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I have a crew of about six people who are always there for me. I don't like clubs: Even though I have a pretty strong stay back! thing about me, drunk people break through - hanging all over me and saying stupid stuff. So I like to go to friends' houses, or they come to mine. We sit around the fire and laugh and be stupid. Play music. Drink red wine.
– Lisa Marie Presley
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.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I have never met a man who could cope with me - who I am, the Presley name. I was always the dominant one in any relationship, and it's unnatural for the woman to be the ... breadwinner ... Which is why I ended up marrying someone even more famous than myself.
– Lisa Marie Presley
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.
– Lisa Marie Presley
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.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I liked an Aretha Franklin song and I went into the studio to do a cover to see if I could sing. I basically walked in there and said, 'Let's just try this, and if I can't, let's just walk out of here and act like nothing happened.' You know, I'm pretty brutally honest with myself.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I listened to lots of different things. I was a real big Pat Benatar fan, and the Wilson sisters I loved Heart. Pink Floyd. I went through a punk phase: I liked the Sex Pistols. Never got into the Ramones. Now Johnny Ramone is one of my best friends, but I never really heard his stuff until I got to be friends with him.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I live with selected people I've sort of made into my family and that's my kind of fortress. I know that I'm safe, despite what else is going on in the outside world.
– Lisa Marie Presley
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.
– Lisa Marie Presley
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.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the table and make me sing sometimes or play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I use songs as weapons. I've written some really good, nasty songs about people I've been involved with and then I make sure they hear it somehow.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I want a fingerprint of my own and I want credibility, and that's all I want. I just want some substance to my existence.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I'm not an Elvis impersonator.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I wanted to put something real out there to end 35 years of speculation. My hope is that I can break through my legacy and earn my own credentials as an artist. Not for some stupid superficial reason, like I want to be a pop icon, but because it would make me feel more like I could hold my head up.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I was very much a daddy's girl, and was pretty tyrannical when he was sleeping. If I could get into trouble, I would. I didn't have a lot of respect for those people because I saw a lot of debauchery and decadence going on. People trying to hid it from me, but I was onto them.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I won't say who my songs are about. But the record was written over a four-year period. I can sit and write about something that happened 10 years ago or two hours ago.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I write about subjects that are close to my heart, but not every one of them is necessarily about the men in my life. Maybe two or three at most ... That's why I called it To Whom It May Concern. Go speculate.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I'll be comfortable on stage if people come because they like the album and they really want to see me. Not because they look at it as a curiosity, or they're really skeptical.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I'll say it loud and say it proud. I'm completely insane.
– Lisa Marie Presley
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
I'm being completely honest right now, and I might get my ass kicked, but would you honestly want someone dressed like your dead father in front of you while you're working?
– Lisa Marie Presley
I'm doing it because music's been such a profound influence on me and my whole life and gotten me through everything. I thought I could use this album as a vehicle, an outlet of whatever I've been through, and I wanted to see if I could affect others. It's as simple as that.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I'm drawn to artists. I'm drawn to people who rattle, who shake things up. I'm definitely attracted to that. I don't like mediocrity. I like people who are different, tortured. I like people that are shaken up and that aren't status quo. And that's the problem. You get attracted to them and there's just another side - it's attractive but it's also destructive.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I'm female, thank God, because if I was male this really would be difficult. And, of course, I don't attempt to sound like my father - I do my own thing.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I'm like a lion - I roar. If someone betrays me, I won't be a victim. I don't sulk, I get angry. I go immediately into retaliation. But it always comes from insecurity or pain.
– Lisa Marie Presley
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?
– Lisa Marie Presley
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.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I'm not a big mover. Apparently I do have some mannerisms on stage.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I'm not doing this to be a pop star. I've had plenty of money and attention. I'm doing it for credibility.
– Lisa Marie Presley
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.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I'm not interested in attention and I don't like being gawked at. I have no interest in standing out from the crowd whatsoever. If anything, my instinct is to hide, to be reclusive.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I'm sure there's no way to escape the fact that I was heavily influenced by him. I was only around his music and him most of the early part of my life. It's impossible not to have been inspired or influenced.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I'm the bravest that I've ever been right now. Don't ask me where I got these balls: I have no idea.
– Lisa Marie Presley
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.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I've been through enough in my time where I've needed to outlet it. If I can do that in a way where I'm going to touch others and affect others then I'd rather do it like that.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I've been writing this record for the past five years, and I've written about things that happened during that period.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I've produced something that was mine, that I'm proud of, so it helps me hold my head up a bit higher. It's not based on some other B.S. that I'm getting attention. I get attention for the right reasons, which makes me happy with the record.
– Lisa Marie Presley
If I put out something that is actually credible, and recognised as such, then I feel a little more justified as a human, you know.
– Lisa Marie Presley
If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.
– Lisa Marie Presley
If people are expecting me to be like my dad they're going to be disappointed. I'm nothing like him. I'm in a completely different category.
– Lisa Marie Presley
It hasn't happened very often that I've actually given my heart. Sometimes I can be completely smitten, but I'll still keep it back at arm's length. Because if I do give it to someone and I get hurt, it's tragic. It incapacitates me. I have to be really careful of that. But that's not to say I would be opposed to falling in love with somebody.
– Lisa Marie Presley
It's rewarding in that I can hold my head up a little higher because people are not just looking at me because of my marriages or the tabloids or because of my lineage. A lot of times people like the music. It's much more gratifying than being stared at for being an animal in a cage.
– Lisa Marie Presley
It's up around 800,000 sales now, so I'm told. Am I happy about that? I don't know. Should I be? I never had any real expectations for it, to be honest. Sure, I'm glad people like it, or seem to like it, and I will say that it's a relief to finally have something out there that's all about myself rather than my father. Other than that, I really don't know what to say.
– Lisa Marie Presley
Look at the amounts Ben Affleck has lavished on J-Lo. When Nic opens his wallet, moths fly out.
– Lisa Marie Presley
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.
– Lisa Marie Presley
Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music.
– Lisa Marie Presley
Music has had a profound effect on me all my life. I wanted to be able to give that to others, believe it or not.
– Lisa Marie Presley
Music's always been such a big part of my life - it's always got me through everything and it always moves me - so I wanted to move others in some way, or touch them, and use my art with my own fingerprint in it.
– Lisa Marie Presley
My kids are so much more together than I ever was. They're my baby-sitters! It's funny having kids when you're young, because you grow up with them. There's something to be said for having them when you're young, and then having them again when you're 35 or 40 and have been through it all. I want to have one or two more.
– Lisa Marie Presley
My life has been unusual. I was born to unusual circumstances, but I'm surviving and going through crap just like anybody else. Sure, it might be on a different level and maybe in a different way, but my life is the same as anybody's. When people look at any life under a microscope, it might seem terrible, but I've met people with worse stories.
– Lisa Marie Presley
My relationship with my mother is fine. It took us a while to get there, but it's fine. Because we're completely the opposites of each other, so we didn't find our place with one another until about a year and a half ago. It's been a bit, like, a hit-and-miss situation.
– Lisa Marie Presley
My son is a huge rap fan. My daughter is more rap/alternative/pop.
– Lisa Marie Presley
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.
– Lisa Marie Presley
Perhaps I should go on record now and say that there are no songs on this album that refer in any way to Michael Jackson. Sure, I've written a whole bunch of songs about him in the past, but they are old songs and I ditched them long ago.
– Lisa Marie Presley
Power or celebrity, you walk a really fine line. It's a struggle to keep your sanity, to keep on a straight line.
– Lisa Marie Presley
Scientology explains to me the answers to life, the mind, people, insanity, man, in a way that, to me, is applicable. It doesn't use fear, or suppression or the devil - it's not repressive. Mainly, it's a way for me to figure out who I am. It's a lot of self-discovery; it's not someone you follow or praise.
– Lisa Marie Presley
Scientology is an encyclopaedia for life. It's non-denominational, it doesn't judge, it's a lot about self-discovery, and it helped me so much for one reason: it works. It helped me through my drugs, and it helps me still. It's my main anchor in life.
– Lisa Marie Presley
Stardom is difficult. It is a lonely, alienated position. You sometimes put yourself on a different plane than everyone else. That causes problems.
– Lisa Marie Presley
The lyrics are more conceptual than anything. They're not particularly about a person. They're just metaphorical, conceptual, of a time and place, ideal, life, that I once knew.
– Lisa Marie Presley
The reason I did this, and the reason the record is called To Whom It May Concern, is that there are going to be people who will immediately judge me, or label me, or try to shut me down right out of the gate. And it's them versus someone who's moved by the music.
– Lisa Marie Presley
When they divorced, I would go out on the road more and miss more school, which I liked. People say I didn't get to see him very much, but I was with him quite a bit. All of a sudden, a car would show up at school, and he was calling for me to go out on the road.
– Lisa Marie Presley
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.
– Lisa Marie Presley
You know what happens when I'm singing? My lip - if I'm in a certain mood - my lip will naturally, instinctively go up when I'm snarling or when I'm upset onstage or when I'm really into whatever I'm singing. And that's not intentional. But I see these photos regularly of comparisons of him and me with that lip going up. It's not something that I try to do, but it happens.
– Lisa Marie Presley