72+ Lisa Marie Presley Quotes On Elvis, Soulful And Intimate

Lisa Marie Presley is an American singer-songwriter and the daughter of Elvis Presley. She began her music career in 2003 and has released three studio albums and one extended play. She is also the owner of Elvis Presley Enterprises, the company that manages the business and assets of her father's estate. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Lisa Marie Presley on elvis, soulful, intimate.

Top 10 Lisa Marie Presley Quotes

1. 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.
2. I'll say it loud and say it proud. I'm completely insane.
3. I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels.
7. I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.
8. You are always learning; there is a lot of grey; don't take things for granted.
9. I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.
10. 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 Short Quotes

• I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.
• I'm still finding my way, and I made a lot of mistakes.
• Were it not for Scientology, I would either be completely insane or dead by now.
• Anybody in the spotlight can get lost in that if they are not careful.
• When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.
• I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.
• I absolutely refuse to bare midriff.
• I've been through a lot of stuff.
• I sit with the intention to write a record.
• I don't think that I'm a top 40 artist in any way. So I don't think I'm that mainstream.

Lisa Marie Presley Quotes About Elvis

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

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

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

Lisa Marie Presley Quotes About People

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. — 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 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 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. — Lisa Marie Presley

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. — Lisa Marie Presley

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. — 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'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 just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy. — Lisa Marie Presley

Lisa Marie Presley Quotes About Music

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. — Lisa Marie Presley

Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music. — 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 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. — Lisa Marie Presley

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

Lisa Marie Presley Famous Quotes And Sayings

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'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

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

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 saw a Velveeta commercial and it was playing, I think 'Burning Love.' He [Michael Jackson] had approved it - that's something we can't control. He can do whatever he wants with the songs he owns to make money, and that got under my skin. — 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

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

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'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 would describe my aesthetic as definitely personal and harmonious with an eclectic yet bohemian sensibility. — Lisa Marie Presley

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. — Lisa Marie Presley

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. — Lisa Marie Presley

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. — Lisa Marie Presley

Making a decision to be a public figure isn't their choice right now. I don't think it's fair. Even though they're beautiful and I love them, they haven't made that decision yet. I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture. — 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

I want to pave my own path artistically. — 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 grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in me not to do what was expected. I wanted to find my own footing. — Lisa Marie Presley

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

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

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. — Lisa Marie Presley

I don't ascribe to any particular style or period. — 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 most artists start off playing in front of people and are used to doing it before they go out. I kind of did it the opposite. The thing got blown sky high and I'm on TV on "Good Morning America" doing my first performance in front of everybody. I think it was backward and from that, what I got out of it, the end is what I wanted, which was headlining my own tour, having people come because they loved my record and loved my music. — Lisa Marie Presley

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. — 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 went through a huge transition in my life where everything and everyone I knew and trusted didn't turn out to be that way. — Lisa Marie Presley

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!! — Lisa Marie Presley

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. — Lisa Marie Presley

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. — Lisa Marie Presley

I like helping children. I have a big thing with children. You can correspond with the child, send something to them as a gift. You know it's actually getting there and you are doing something to help. — Lisa Marie Presley

Life Lessons by Lisa Marie Presley

1. Lisa Marie Presley has shown that it is possible to forge your own path in the music industry and create success on your own terms.
2. She has also demonstrated the importance of staying true to yourself and your values, even when faced with difficult decisions.
3. Finally, Lisa Marie Presley has shown that it is possible to be both a successful musician and a devoted mother.