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Art & Creativity Quote by Lisa Marie Presley

"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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There’s a particular kind of bravery in calling your own past “dark corridors”: it’s not the language of a neat comeback narrative, but of someone reopening rooms she’s been forced to live in publicly. Lisa Marie Presley frames the work as excavation, not confession. “Went back through” suggests deliberate return, a choice to revisit what’s painful because it’s also formative. That phrasing matters for a figure whose biography has been treated like communal property. She’s saying: I can’t stop you from looking, but I can decide the lighting.

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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APA Style (7th ed.)
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/.

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"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.

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Lisa Marie Presley

Lisa Marie Presley (born February 1, 1968) is a Musician from USA.

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