Top 60 Lisa Marie Presley Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

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

— Lisa Marie Presley

3. “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.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

4. “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

5. “I’m more of a tomboy than anything and then you see your name on these Top 50 Most Beautiful People lists and you’re like, ‘What?’”

— Lisa Marie Presley

6. “I’ll say it loud and say it proud. I’m completely insane.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

7. “Being Elvis Presley’s daughter is a whole lot of pressure. It’s been a constant burden in my life.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

8. “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

9. “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.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

10. “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

11. “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

12. “I don’t do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don’t exercise.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

13. “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.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

14. “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

15. “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.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

16. “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.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

17. “You are always learning; there is a lot of grey; don’t take things for granted.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

18. “I absolutely refuse to bare midriff.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

19. “A couple of months ago I hauled my white ass on stage alongside Chaka Khan and Stevie Wonder for Divas Las Vegas, singing in front of a celebrity audience. If I can hold my own there, I can hold my own at Top of the Pops, trust me.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

20. “I’m still finding my way, and I made a lot of mistakes.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

21. “How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I’m sure I’ll end up there, or I’ll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I’ll get more tourists to Graceland that way.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

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

— Lisa Marie Presley

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

— Lisa Marie Presley

24. “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.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

25. “I’m not gonna marry somebody for any reason other than the fact that I’ve fallen in love with them. Period! Period! And they can eat it, if they wanna think any differently!!”

— Lisa Marie Presley

26. “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.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

27. “I’ve never even been out of my BMI range. I’m 5-foot-3. If I gain five pounds, it shows.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

28. “Anybody in the spotlight can get lost in that if they are not careful.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

29. “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

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

— Lisa Marie Presley

31. “I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

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

— Lisa Marie Presley

33. “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.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

34. “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.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

35. “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.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

36. “I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that’s always been my core. But I had it in me not to do what was expected. I wanted to find my own footing.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

37. “I want to pave my own path artistically.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

38. “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.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

39. “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.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

40. “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

41. “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.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

42. “I’ve been through a lot of stuff.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

43. “I’m just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

44. “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.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

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

— Lisa Marie Presley

46. “I’ve been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

47. “I don’t ascribe to any particular style or period.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

48. “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.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

49. “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.”

— Lisa Marie Presley

50. “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