01. "One thing he had was a lot of pride and dignity and if anybody tries to take it away, I'm kind of hardcore with that."
02. "Sometimes I do. I have to kind of get into a mindset, a certain headspace, I definitely do. I'm 더 많이 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 더 많이 drawn to the darker, sadder songs."
03. "My kids are so much 더 많이 together than I ever was. They're my baby-sitters! It's funny having kids when you're young, because 당신 grow up with them. There's something to be said for having them when you're young, and then having them again when you're 35 또는 40 and have been through it all."
04. "My biggest fear has been [my kids] losing their identity of themselves and falling into all of this who they're connected to thing, including myself right now."
05. "I had to do this record for me. I don't like attention on me, and that's a problem, but if I get it, I'd rather have it because I made a record and not because of who I married 또는 who my dad was."
06. "I've produced something that was mine, that I'm proud of, so it helps me hold my head up a bit higher. It's not based on some other B.S. that I'm getting attention. I get attention for the right reasons, which makes me happy with the record."
07. "You want to know who I am, and what I am, it's in here. This is how either fucked up I am, 또는 crazy 또는 deranged 또는 stupid 또는 whatever 당신 want to call it. This is me, and it's from me, and that's the only reason I did it."
08. "I didn't make this record to set the record straight 또는 anything. I just wanted to put something out there, and I'm glad I have. I'd be having much 더 많이 fun with all this if I was in the least bit vain 또는 desperate for attention, but I'm not, so, 당신 know ..."
09. "The biggest struggle, and why I took so long, was to get me to compromise enough to put records on that were sort of 안전한, 안전 and radio-friendly. What I tend to go towards is ambience and a vibe. I didn't go for a style, which is why the whole thing is a potpourri of I don't know what."
10. "I'm being completely honest right now, & I might get my 나귀, 엉덩이 kicked, but would 당신 honestly want someone dressed like your dead father in front of 당신 while you're working?"
11. "I'll be comfortable on stage if people come because they like the album and they really want to see me. Not because they look at it as a curiosity, 또는 they're really skeptical."
12. "I think that it will help me break through what I need to break through. It's not easy. When most bands have toured, they've gotten their 작살, 공연 together and that 의해 the time they've signed something, they've already had all that, so they go out and they're excited to do all that."
13. "I want to go on every night and find my way with it. When I know people are there to see me because they like the 음악 and they're 노래 the lyrics, it's great - instead of when they're standing there and don't know what the hell to think about me."
14. "He was a larger-than-life figure to me, someone I admired in everyway. I was daddy's girl."
15. "My relationship with my mother is fine. It took us a while to get there, but it's fine. Because we're completely the opposites of each other, so we didn't find our place with one another until about a 년 and a half ago. It's been a bit, like, a hit-and-miss situation."
16. "She's very strong. I admire her business sense--I'm not a numbnuts, but I haven't inherited it completely. I'm a monkey, an Aquarius, and artist. I'm 더 많이 head-in-the-clouds. She's on it."
17. "They're little miniature mes: humor-wise, personality-wise. They're so no-bullshit, those kids."
18. "I want [my kids] to be productive individuals that are going to actually create a product... "
19. "I was very much a daddy's girl, and was pretty tyrannical when he was sleeping. If I could get into trouble, I would."
20. "I was very protective of my father, and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out."
21. "I got an early education on how bad men and women can act. Most of those people were sucking the life out of him."
22. "I remember him (laughs) watching me through the crack of a door 노래 with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the 표, 테이블 and make me sing sometimes 또는 play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front."
23. "When they (her parents) divorced, I would go out on the road 더 많이 and miss 더 많이 school, which I liked. People say I didn't get to see him very much, but I was with him quite a bit. All of a sudden, a car would show up at school, and he was calling for me to go out on the road."
24. "After my father died, I stayed relatively sane for two years, although I did lose my noodle at summer camp right after my dad's death. But when I hit 12, 13, that was it. I hated my mom's boyfriend, and there was a lot of control on me. I didn't like that, so I rebelled."
25. "Two words: lonely and deep. I was very lonely and way too deep for someone so young. My head was full of all these big, terrible questions. 당신 know, what is life, what is death, why are we here? It affected me badly."
26. "I think I had a harsh introduction to death early on, and I kind of, it sort of started a whole sequence at that point. [My dad] and then my grandfather and my grandmother, and my, friends, and, it was just non-stop for a long time."
27. "I did this to justify my existence, aside from the sensational tabloid crap."
28. "I wanted to put something real out there to end 35 years of speculation. My hope is that I can break through my legacy and earn my own credentials as an artist. Not for some stupid superficial reason, like I want to be a pop icon, but because it would make me feel 더 많이 like I could hold my head up."
29. "The reason I did this, and the reason the record is called To Whom It May Concern, is that there are going to be people who will immediately judge me, 또는 label me, 또는 try to shut me down right out of the gate."
30. "I'm doing it because music's been such a profound influence on me and my whole life and gotten me through everything, I thought I could use this album as a vehicle, an outlet of whatever I've been through, and I wanted to see if I could affect others. It's as simple as that."
31. "I want a fingerprint of my own and I want credibility, and that's all I want, I just want some substance to my existence, something that I created. Not who I married, 또는 where I came from -- not that I'm trying to run from that."
32. "Absolutely. There's a lot 더 많이 pressure on me. People think it's easier, but it's actually not, because there are people who want to immediately throw 당신 the curve because of the celebrity part of it, which I understand. But that's not something that I really had anything to do with creating."
33. "It's just a record about me: who I am, the way I think, the way I feel. I felt it was time to put something out there that was a completely honest depiction of me, because let's face it, nobody knows who the hell I am. Sure, I've been the subject of a million tabloid sensations during my life, but that's hardly an accurate representation, is it?"
34. "The lyrics are 더 많이 conceptual than anything. They're not particularly about a person. They're just metaphorical, conceptual, of a time and place, ideal, life, that I once knew."
35. "It's rewarding in that I can hold my head up a little higher because people are not just looking at me because of my marriages 또는 the tabloids 또는 because of my lineage, A lot of times people like the music. It's much 더 많이 gratifying than being stared at for being an animal in a cage."
36. "I'm happy. I did it and I had it tough. I'm up against a lot - most celebrity kids are. I was ready to be annihilated. I had all the odds stacked against me on this one, which is why I can't even come close to [believing it's happening]."
37. "I thought of putting the record out under another name, and I thought about putting it out under a band name, 또는 anonymously - I ran through everything. Andy Slater, the president of Capitol, and I tend to battle a lot, and he always wins - so far. He persuaded me to put the record out under my own name."
38. "I hate working out. It probably would be dancing, if anything, 또는 walking."
39. "I did go through a Goth thing, but that was a long time ago. I just like artists that shake it up, that piss people off 또는 make people think 또는 rattle the cage somehow."
40. "I listened to lots of different things. I was a real big Pat Benatar fan, and the Wilson sisters I loved Heart. 담홍색, 핑크 Floyd. I went through a punk phase: I liked the Sex Pistols. Never got into the Ramones. Now Johnny Ramone is one of my best friends, but I never really heard his stuff until I got to be 프렌즈 with him."
41. "People like Pat Benatar, Linda Ronstadt, Elton John, Tracy Chapman, Mazzy Star, Jeff Buckley. It's such a wide variety, it's schizophrenic."
42. "Jeff Buckley never dies. 담홍색, 핑크 Floyd never dies."
43. "I like Audioslave right now."
44. "Anyone who knows me properly will tell 당신 that I'm not a vain person. I make the effort when I have to, but most times I don't give a shit."
45. "My life has been unusual. I was born to unusual circumstances, but I'm surviving and going through crap just like anybody else. Sure, it might be on a different level and maybe in a different way, but my life is the same as anybody's."
46. "I'm like a lion--I roar. If someone betrays me, I won't be a victim. I don't sulk, I get angry. I go immediatley into retaliation. But it always comes from insecurity 또는 pain."
47. "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."
48. "I'll say it loud and say it proud. I'm completely insane."
49. "Demented. My sense of humur is only based on irony and insanity. Something completely nosequitor will make me die laughing."
50. "I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't excercise."
51. "For some reason, when I turned 30 I became a teenager again and it wasn't really 의해 my own will, it just happened"
52. "Look, my whole life has been a constant battle of trying to find my own way. I have never met a man who could cope with me - who I am, the Presley name."
53. "Stardom is difficult. It is a lonely, alienated position. 당신 sometimes put yourself on a different plane than everyone else. That causes problems."
54. "I'm not interested in attention and I don't like being gawked at. I have no interest in standing out from the crowd whatsoever. If anything, my instinct is to hide, to be reclusive."
55. "I find it very unnerving and scary, to be honest, because I am a very private person"
56. "I always worry about overexposure, but it's 더 많이 important for me to have attention for the right reasons right now as opposed to some sensationalist B.S. crap that's just ridiculous. The celebrity thing -- whatever that is -- I don't like so much."
57. "I always look around. I never leave anywhere without looking around. I look in the trash, I look in the leaves, I look in the windows. I'm always looking. I can sense them when they're around me. I don't want my children photographed! I don't like their pictures all over the place."
58. "I trust her instinctively. I have never ever seen her betray anyone. She is very loyal. But if 당신 betray her, then watch out!"
59. "What I am trying to do is make my own thumbprint. Even if it sucks - at least it's mine."
60. "I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this record"
61. "See, 당신 have a difficult situation with me because of the celebrity thing. If I'm with a guy, he might be a talented and beautiful person but he basically becomes Mr Fucking Presley. Their whole identity just gets pummelled."
62. "David Cassidy when I was small and Leif Garret way back when. And I had posters of the Stray 고양이 and Sid Vicious. I had a big crush on him. In fact, I think I had 더 많이 of a crush on Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious then the actual guy himself. Gary Oldman may have given him much 더 많이 character than he actually had."
63. "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."
64. "I still feel like a child. Like a kid. Even at 25, I thought I was dying. And being 30 will definitely make me feel like I'm no longer a baby."
65. "I don't think I sound like anybody. I hear what everybody's saying, that I sound like Cher 또는 Sheryl Crow. But it's the lower register. I don't think people know what to do with it. Not many female vocalists have that lower register. I can do high as well, but I'm 더 많이 comfortable low. That's my comfort zone. "
66. "Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music. I didn't do anything different than what any other artist does. Because it's me, there's 더 많이 attention paid to whether it's personal."
67. "Those who can, DO and those who can't, CRITICIZE!"
68. "Before the record came out in the US, I think a lot of people were expecting something lightweight, 양귀비, 양 귀 비 and completely insubstantial from me. Their reaction since has been surprise and shock... That pleases me."
69. "I feel like people want it to succeed and people just want to just fucking annihilate it. I have so many odds against me that, yeah, I can breathe easier right now!"
70. "Making a decision to be a public figure isn't their choice right now. I don't think it's fair. Even though they're beautiful and I 사랑 them, they haven't made that decision yet. I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture."
02. "Sometimes I do. I have to kind of get into a mindset, a certain headspace, I definitely do. I'm 더 많이 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 더 많이 drawn to the darker, sadder songs."
03. "My kids are so much 더 많이 together than I ever was. They're my baby-sitters! It's funny having kids when you're young, because 당신 grow up with them. There's something to be said for having them when you're young, and then having them again when you're 35 또는 40 and have been through it all."
04. "My biggest fear has been [my kids] losing their identity of themselves and falling into all of this who they're connected to thing, including myself right now."
05. "I had to do this record for me. I don't like attention on me, and that's a problem, but if I get it, I'd rather have it because I made a record and not because of who I married 또는 who my dad was."
06. "I've produced something that was mine, that I'm proud of, so it helps me hold my head up a bit higher. It's not based on some other B.S. that I'm getting attention. I get attention for the right reasons, which makes me happy with the record."
07. "You want to know who I am, and what I am, it's in here. This is how either fucked up I am, 또는 crazy 또는 deranged 또는 stupid 또는 whatever 당신 want to call it. This is me, and it's from me, and that's the only reason I did it."
08. "I didn't make this record to set the record straight 또는 anything. I just wanted to put something out there, and I'm glad I have. I'd be having much 더 많이 fun with all this if I was in the least bit vain 또는 desperate for attention, but I'm not, so, 당신 know ..."
09. "The biggest struggle, and why I took so long, was to get me to compromise enough to put records on that were sort of 안전한, 안전 and radio-friendly. What I tend to go towards is ambience and a vibe. I didn't go for a style, which is why the whole thing is a potpourri of I don't know what."
10. "I'm being completely honest right now, & I might get my 나귀, 엉덩이 kicked, but would 당신 honestly want someone dressed like your dead father in front of 당신 while you're working?"
11. "I'll be comfortable on stage if people come because they like the album and they really want to see me. Not because they look at it as a curiosity, 또는 they're really skeptical."
12. "I think that it will help me break through what I need to break through. It's not easy. When most bands have toured, they've gotten their 작살, 공연 together and that 의해 the time they've signed something, they've already had all that, so they go out and they're excited to do all that."
13. "I want to go on every night and find my way with it. When I know people are there to see me because they like the 음악 and they're 노래 the lyrics, it's great - instead of when they're standing there and don't know what the hell to think about me."
14. "He was a larger-than-life figure to me, someone I admired in everyway. I was daddy's girl."
15. "My relationship with my mother is fine. It took us a while to get there, but it's fine. Because we're completely the opposites of each other, so we didn't find our place with one another until about a 년 and a half ago. It's been a bit, like, a hit-and-miss situation."
16. "She's very strong. I admire her business sense--I'm not a numbnuts, but I haven't inherited it completely. I'm a monkey, an Aquarius, and artist. I'm 더 많이 head-in-the-clouds. She's on it."
17. "They're little miniature mes: humor-wise, personality-wise. They're so no-bullshit, those kids."
18. "I want [my kids] to be productive individuals that are going to actually create a product... "
19. "I was very much a daddy's girl, and was pretty tyrannical when he was sleeping. If I could get into trouble, I would."
20. "I was very protective of my father, and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out."
21. "I got an early education on how bad men and women can act. Most of those people were sucking the life out of him."
22. "I remember him (laughs) watching me through the crack of a door 노래 with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the 표, 테이블 and make me sing sometimes 또는 play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front."
23. "When they (her parents) divorced, I would go out on the road 더 많이 and miss 더 많이 school, which I liked. People say I didn't get to see him very much, but I was with him quite a bit. All of a sudden, a car would show up at school, and he was calling for me to go out on the road."
24. "After my father died, I stayed relatively sane for two years, although I did lose my noodle at summer camp right after my dad's death. But when I hit 12, 13, that was it. I hated my mom's boyfriend, and there was a lot of control on me. I didn't like that, so I rebelled."
25. "Two words: lonely and deep. I was very lonely and way too deep for someone so young. My head was full of all these big, terrible questions. 당신 know, what is life, what is death, why are we here? It affected me badly."
26. "I think I had a harsh introduction to death early on, and I kind of, it sort of started a whole sequence at that point. [My dad] and then my grandfather and my grandmother, and my, friends, and, it was just non-stop for a long time."
27. "I did this to justify my existence, aside from the sensational tabloid crap."
28. "I wanted to put something real out there to end 35 years of speculation. My hope is that I can break through my legacy and earn my own credentials as an artist. Not for some stupid superficial reason, like I want to be a pop icon, but because it would make me feel 더 많이 like I could hold my head up."
29. "The reason I did this, and the reason the record is called To Whom It May Concern, is that there are going to be people who will immediately judge me, 또는 label me, 또는 try to shut me down right out of the gate."
30. "I'm doing it because music's been such a profound influence on me and my whole life and gotten me through everything, I thought I could use this album as a vehicle, an outlet of whatever I've been through, and I wanted to see if I could affect others. It's as simple as that."
31. "I want a fingerprint of my own and I want credibility, and that's all I want, I just want some substance to my existence, something that I created. Not who I married, 또는 where I came from -- not that I'm trying to run from that."
32. "Absolutely. There's a lot 더 많이 pressure on me. People think it's easier, but it's actually not, because there are people who want to immediately throw 당신 the curve because of the celebrity part of it, which I understand. But that's not something that I really had anything to do with creating."
33. "It's just a record about me: who I am, the way I think, the way I feel. I felt it was time to put something out there that was a completely honest depiction of me, because let's face it, nobody knows who the hell I am. Sure, I've been the subject of a million tabloid sensations during my life, but that's hardly an accurate representation, is it?"
34. "The lyrics are 더 많이 conceptual than anything. They're not particularly about a person. They're just metaphorical, conceptual, of a time and place, ideal, life, that I once knew."
35. "It's rewarding in that I can hold my head up a little higher because people are not just looking at me because of my marriages 또는 the tabloids 또는 because of my lineage, A lot of times people like the music. It's much 더 많이 gratifying than being stared at for being an animal in a cage."
36. "I'm happy. I did it and I had it tough. I'm up against a lot - most celebrity kids are. I was ready to be annihilated. I had all the odds stacked against me on this one, which is why I can't even come close to [believing it's happening]."
37. "I thought of putting the record out under another name, and I thought about putting it out under a band name, 또는 anonymously - I ran through everything. Andy Slater, the president of Capitol, and I tend to battle a lot, and he always wins - so far. He persuaded me to put the record out under my own name."
38. "I hate working out. It probably would be dancing, if anything, 또는 walking."
39. "I did go through a Goth thing, but that was a long time ago. I just like artists that shake it up, that piss people off 또는 make people think 또는 rattle the cage somehow."
40. "I listened to lots of different things. I was a real big Pat Benatar fan, and the Wilson sisters I loved Heart. 담홍색, 핑크 Floyd. I went through a punk phase: I liked the Sex Pistols. Never got into the Ramones. Now Johnny Ramone is one of my best friends, but I never really heard his stuff until I got to be 프렌즈 with him."
41. "People like Pat Benatar, Linda Ronstadt, Elton John, Tracy Chapman, Mazzy Star, Jeff Buckley. It's such a wide variety, it's schizophrenic."
42. "Jeff Buckley never dies. 담홍색, 핑크 Floyd never dies."
43. "I like Audioslave right now."
44. "Anyone who knows me properly will tell 당신 that I'm not a vain person. I make the effort when I have to, but most times I don't give a shit."
45. "My life has been unusual. I was born to unusual circumstances, but I'm surviving and going through crap just like anybody else. Sure, it might be on a different level and maybe in a different way, but my life is the same as anybody's."
46. "I'm like a lion--I roar. If someone betrays me, I won't be a victim. I don't sulk, I get angry. I go immediatley into retaliation. But it always comes from insecurity 또는 pain."
47. "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."
48. "I'll say it loud and say it proud. I'm completely insane."
49. "Demented. My sense of humur is only based on irony and insanity. Something completely nosequitor will make me die laughing."
50. "I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't excercise."
51. "For some reason, when I turned 30 I became a teenager again and it wasn't really 의해 my own will, it just happened"
52. "Look, my whole life has been a constant battle of trying to find my own way. I have never met a man who could cope with me - who I am, the Presley name."
53. "Stardom is difficult. It is a lonely, alienated position. 당신 sometimes put yourself on a different plane than everyone else. That causes problems."
54. "I'm not interested in attention and I don't like being gawked at. I have no interest in standing out from the crowd whatsoever. If anything, my instinct is to hide, to be reclusive."
55. "I find it very unnerving and scary, to be honest, because I am a very private person"
56. "I always worry about overexposure, but it's 더 많이 important for me to have attention for the right reasons right now as opposed to some sensationalist B.S. crap that's just ridiculous. The celebrity thing -- whatever that is -- I don't like so much."
57. "I always look around. I never leave anywhere without looking around. I look in the trash, I look in the leaves, I look in the windows. I'm always looking. I can sense them when they're around me. I don't want my children photographed! I don't like their pictures all over the place."
58. "I trust her instinctively. I have never ever seen her betray anyone. She is very loyal. But if 당신 betray her, then watch out!"
59. "What I am trying to do is make my own thumbprint. Even if it sucks - at least it's mine."
60. "I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this record"
61. "See, 당신 have a difficult situation with me because of the celebrity thing. If I'm with a guy, he might be a talented and beautiful person but he basically becomes Mr Fucking Presley. Their whole identity just gets pummelled."
62. "David Cassidy when I was small and Leif Garret way back when. And I had posters of the Stray 고양이 and Sid Vicious. I had a big crush on him. In fact, I think I had 더 많이 of a crush on Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious then the actual guy himself. Gary Oldman may have given him much 더 많이 character than he actually had."
63. "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."
64. "I still feel like a child. Like a kid. Even at 25, I thought I was dying. And being 30 will definitely make me feel like I'm no longer a baby."
65. "I don't think I sound like anybody. I hear what everybody's saying, that I sound like Cher 또는 Sheryl Crow. But it's the lower register. I don't think people know what to do with it. Not many female vocalists have that lower register. I can do high as well, but I'm 더 많이 comfortable low. That's my comfort zone. "
66. "Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music. I didn't do anything different than what any other artist does. Because it's me, there's 더 많이 attention paid to whether it's personal."
67. "Those who can, DO and those who can't, CRITICIZE!"
68. "Before the record came out in the US, I think a lot of people were expecting something lightweight, 양귀비, 양 귀 비 and completely insubstantial from me. Their reaction since has been surprise and shock... That pleases me."
69. "I feel like people want it to succeed and people just want to just fucking annihilate it. I have so many odds against me that, yeah, I can breathe easier right now!"
70. "Making a decision to be a public figure isn't their choice right now. I don't think it's fair. Even though they're beautiful and I 사랑 them, they haven't made that decision yet. I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture."