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.”

“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.”

“I don't think that I'm a top 40 artist in any way. So I don't think I'm that mainstream.”

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

“I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The period of time just before you awaken is the time I have my most creative thoughts and discover the best solutions.”

“I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.”

“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.”

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

“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 was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.”

“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.”

“I want to pave my own path artistically.”