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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. "

Lisa Marie Presley

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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 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. "

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" 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. "

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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 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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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 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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" I sit with the intention to write a record. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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