Lisa Marie Presley Quotes

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.

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?'

I'll say it loud and say it proud. I'm completely insane.

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.

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.

I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out.

Anytime I was in Memphis with my dad and at the house, I was happy. That was, like, a given. It was what I lived for. And I still feel the same excitement and warmth.

I want to pave my own path artistically.

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.

I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels.

You are always learning; there is a lot of grey; don't take things for granted.

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

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.

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

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.

I absolutely refuse to bare midriff.

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

I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't exercise.

I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.

I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I'm still finding my way, and I made a lot of mistakes.

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.

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

I'm not gonna marry somebody for any reason other than the fact that I've fallen in love with them. Period! Period! And they can eat it, if they wanna think any differently!!

I've been through a lot of stuff.

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.

Were it not for Scientology, I would either be completely insane or dead by now.

Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music.

Anybody in the spotlight can get lost in that if they are not careful.

I take a situation, analyse it, break it down, put it in the form I want it to be in, and then I toss it away. Let somebody else go deal with it.

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

I sit with the intention to write a record.

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.

I don't think that I'm a top 40 artist in any way. So I don't think I'm that mainstream.

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

If you lined up everyone I've ever dated, you wouldn't see any similarities.

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

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.

I don't ascribe to any particular style or period.