"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"
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The second sentence is the real power move: a demand to be evaluated through craft rather than gossip. “Based on my music” is both a plea and a boundary. It’s an artist arguing that the most truthful version of a person is not the one assembled from headlines, marriages, and tragedy, but the one built from decisions made in the studio: what to reveal, what to disguise, what to turn into melody. The tabloids thrive on flattening people into plot; music, at its best, restores dimension.
Context is everything here: Presley’s name is inseparable from inheritance, celebrity scrutiny, and a family mythos that sells even when she’s silent. The subtext reads like a correction to a lifetime of being narrated by others. She isn’t claiming purity or denying mess. She’s reclaiming authorship, insisting that if the public is going to consume her life, they should at least do it on terms that resemble art instead of spectacle.
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Presley, Lisa Marie. (n.d.). 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. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-really-went-back-through-a-lot-of-the-dark-54447/
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Presley, Lisa Marie. "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." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-really-went-back-through-a-lot-of-the-dark-54447/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"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." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-really-went-back-through-a-lot-of-the-dark-54447/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.



