Quotes

"It would be "come and meet me here" and when I turned up there would be press everywhere" - on the suggestion that Michael Jackson used their relationship for promotion.

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

[on her mentality after her father's death] 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. You know, what is life, what is death, why are we here? It affected me badly.

I'll say it loud and say it proud. I'm completely insane.

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.

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 immediately into retaliation. But it always comes from insecurity or pain.

[About Michael Jackson] He was an amazing person and I am lucky to have gotten as close to him as I did and to have had the many experiences and years that we had together.

You want to know the best thing and the worst thing about me? I see things as they really are. People really bullshit themselves. I don't like any filter or rainbows or fluff. And sometimes it is a blessing. And sometimes it makes me the biggest fucking pain in the ass ever. Because people don't want to see that.

[on films made about her father Elvis Presley] There can be a sort of cheesy take on him, which I don't always love sometimes - you know, the later years and that whole thing with his white jumpsuit. Now I'm probably over it. But I mean it was kind of running wild for a while. It was a little bit cringe-worthy.

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?'

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.

I was very angry but didn't know here it was coming from. Now I can tell you that I was surrounded 24/7 by people that were not well-intended. It also obscured my perception and spun a web around me and insulated me to a degree. Everything went out from under me and I had to start from ground zero...it was devastating at the time but I had to go through a whole process of rediscovering everything again starting with me.

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. I think people reveal themselves in their opposites. To be honest, I'm really overly, scarily sensitive, and I feel way too much, so I have to have something to hide under.

I love it there [in Memphis]. It's so familiar. I'm always happy when I'm there. I love to be there. I love my family there. I would live there if I could.

I think that art can break through anything if it's done with someone's heart and soul.

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 know how fast life can shift direction and take the ground out from underneath you.

I never write from a happy place. It's always a beautiful sadness or pain or hurt or betrayal.

For many years I was surrounded by people who I thought were good people, confidantes and friends, but there was a whole sinister scene to control me and I didn't really know or see that this was happening. I was in a hornet's nest 24/7 and didn't know it for years. People that I trusted for years turned out to be not good.

I've always been attracted to people who push the envelope or who are powerful.

I don't know that I even have a good voice to be honest with you. What I can do is I can emote really well. My voice has got its own thing, it's either gonna hit you right or it's not gonna hit you right. I have an ability to emote and it's not necessarily technically a good voice. I realized I could do that and be emotional and use my voice to deliver my emotions in whichever way I needed to.