Lisa Marie Presley Quotes

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

I know what my sound is. I'm just trying to get it out there how I can explain it. I'm not trying to write or put out some music that doesn't represent me.

I never wanted to be that fad type of artist. When I looked up to artists, watching TV, I wanted to see somebody. I wanted to touch that person. I wanted to sound like them. I wanted to move like them. That' s what I want my fans to do. So that's why, everything that I do, the music I make, how I dress, it's all based off my lifestyle.

Many people say to me, particularly about my dance writing, 'It sounds just like you.' But it sounds just like me after I've made it sound like me.

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.

Don't imitate. Write what you know about, that has to be your goal.

But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist.

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

I can't just sing karaoke; I can't do anything to try to sound like other people. I have to find what I naturally sound like and emphasize that.

I would like to be able to write in my own voice.

I stick to what I do best, and I think what makes an artist an artist is when they know who they are.

I'm still trying to keep it original, staying true to my sound.

Don't worry about trying to develop a style. Style is what you can't help doing. If you write enough, you draw enough, you'll have a style, whether you want it or not. Don't worry about whether you're "commercial". Tell your own stories, draw your own pictures. Let other people follow you.

It's never good to just imitate somebody. That never works, because then you're not filling it with anything.

We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.

It's hard work to find your own voice and not to copycat anything.

I'm totally open to exploring different types of music. I just have to always remember to be true to who I am.

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

I feel like it's important, especially at young age, to find exactly what it is that makes your style so important as opposed to just trying to fit into the iconic styles of performers out there.

What I aspire to do, and what I try the hardest to do, is write stuff that's very personal in its way. I figure I can only say things the way I say them, so I'm trying to do something that is kind of anti-generic.

I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.