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" 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. "

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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. "

Lisa Marie Presley

My Life

Life

Way

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

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

" 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'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

" 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. "

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

Lisa Marie Presley

You

Similarities

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

" 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 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 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. "

" 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

Love

Love Me

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

Lisa Marie Presley

Kick

Rattle

" 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. "

" 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. "

Lisa Marie Presley

Feel

Excitement

" 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 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. "

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

" 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 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 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. "