Lisa Marie Presley Quotes

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.

I love bummer songs.

There's never been a particular band that I've followed religiously. But I do tend to listen to sadder music.

I guess I'm a real fan of older music, and that's what shaped my taste and the way I sing.

Believe it or not, I loved acid rock in college - and I still do.

I don't really have a lot of hip-hop and all of that, so I have a lot of John Lennon. That's one that I really like, and The Clash, the Rolling Stones, groups that I think are kind of timeless.

My favorite band was The Band, and nobody compares in my mind with The Band.

But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.

After that I didn't listen to music as much because '70s music just wasn't... I remember all the songs, but it wasn't because I was into them, you know what I mean?

I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie.

I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard.

I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.

When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side.'

Music-wise, I listen to everything. Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman - I guess I like a lot of '70s music.

My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.

I don't know if it's cool to say this anymore, but I grew up listening to Gary Glitter. A majority of his songs were in that shuffle-blues beat, and I think that's probably why I tend to write like that.

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

I love slow music.

There are bands that I got into when I was 15, when I was mad at my dad and just wanted to be different. I don't think I'd give those bands half a chance now. But I hold some kind of nostalgia for them that I won't let go. Bands like Minor Threat and Black Flag.

When I was a kid I was definitely into Neil Young.

When I grew up, my dad listened to all that stuff - Neil Young. Floyd. The Doors. The Beatles. Stones. So even now, to this day, it's the music I listen to a lot of the time.

I think we all love the music we listened to as kids the most.

Even though I grew up playing folk music - and surf music, originally - I was listening to Motown and Stax on the radio as well. That music always resonated with me.

I'm a big fan of '80s music, for lack of a better word.

I like a lot of older, '60s or '70s-style songwriting.