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I've been through a lot of stuff.
I absolutely refuse to bare midriff.
I want to pave my own path artistically.
I sit with the intention to write a record.
I don't ascribe to any particular style or period.
I'm still finding my way, and I made a lot of mistakes.
I'll say it loud and say it proud. I'm completely insane.
I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.
When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.
Anybody in the spotlight can get lost in that if they are not careful.
Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music.
If you lined up everyone I've ever dated, you wouldn't see any similarities.
You are always learning; there is a lot of grey; don't take things for granted.
Were it not for Scientology, I would either be completely insane or dead by now.
I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy
I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy.
I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.
I don't think that I'm a top 40 artist in any way. So I don't think I'm that mainstream.
I've never even been out of my BMI range. I'm 5-foot-3. If I gain five pounds, it shows.
I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.
I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.
Being Elvis Presley's daughter is a whole lot of pressure. It's been a constant burden in my life.
I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't exercise.
I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.
I'm not doing this to be a pop star. I've had plenty of money and attention. I'm doing it for credibility.
I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels.
I would describe my aesthetic as definitely personal and harmonious with an eclectic yet bohemian sensibility.
I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out.
The period of time just before you awaken is the time I have my most creative thoughts and discover the best solutions.
I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.
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.
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.
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?'
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Between all four children and my husband, I don't get to do much. But when I am in England, I cook and I garden, and it's much more calming and relaxed.
I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time.
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.
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.
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.
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 or make people think or rattle the cage somehow.
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.
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!!