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" 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. "

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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. "

Lisa Marie Presley

I Am

Dark

My Life

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

Lisa Marie Presley

You

Similarities

" 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. "

" 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

Think

Know

" 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. "

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

" 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

Father

Brat

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm one of those people that, if I hear about something happening, I go crazy. I want to go help. "

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

" 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

Outside

Day

" I want to pave my own path artistically. "

" 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

I Am

Children

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

Listen

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