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" I'm a lot of work. "
Lisa Marie Presley
Work
Lot
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" The period of time just before you awaken is the time I have my most creative thoughts and discover the best solutions. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it. "
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" 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. "
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" I've never even been out of my BMI range. I'm 5-foot-3. If I gain five pounds, it shows. "
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" 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. "
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" If you lined up everyone I've ever dated, you wouldn't see any similarities. "
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" 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. "
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" I'll say it loud and say it proud. I'm completely insane. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy. "
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" 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. "
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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 live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels. "
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