There's been a big void out there, in terms of where I've been and what I am currently working on, I'd like to fill that void now and share my exciting plans for the future.
You know, you know, obviously, if my daughter's happy, you know, then I don't have any problem.
You know, Lisa, for the longest time, did not sing.
You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.
You have to remember that when I met Elvis, you know, it wasn't the fanfare that it is today or even when he was here in the states and I was in Germany growing up.
Yes, the divorce was difficult. It was difficult.
There were the phone calls and Elvis had asked me to visit him in Los Angeles. This was in 1962.
There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.
No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight.
It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the routine. And there was a point where he just kind of gave up. He couldn't face being 40. And he resorted to stimulants. There's a dark side there, a really dark side.
Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.
I mean, I had probably an illusion of being the wife that, you know, I wanted to create a home. I wanted to have children. I wanted him to be a husband. It was never going to be that way. It couldn't be that way.
I lived somebody else's life. It was never about me, it was really about him on every level.
She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I would send her to Memphis to be with him.
You have so much to share, you have so much to tell, you have so much you want to expose, so much that's inside that you've learned from that life period. There are really very few people I can share that with.