Lisa Marie
Excerpts from Interview with Diane Sawyer

INTRO, LIZ HAYES:

She's definitely daddy's girl.
Elvis Presley's only child, a living reminder of the King.
Those eyes, that smile, that "something"
that made him seem both wild and wounded at the same time …
she has them all.

DIANE SAWYER: We have spent a lifetime looking at her and never really known her.
The shy daughter of the King of rock 'n' roll.

 But you can't help thinking, she looks like Elvis.

Do you see it?

LISA MARIE PRESLEY: Honestly, yes, I've seen it ... but it's not something that I've tried to do.
But I have gone, like, "Oh my!" sometimes I would do that, like, "Stop that, what are you doing?"
But it's not like I'm trying to fight it either but I can definitely see it.

DS: Does Graceland seem like another world away or does it still seem like home?

LISA MARIE: Graceland is like a time capsule. Nothing has changed, nothing's been touched.
It's kind of a sad thing, a life that existed there at one time, and the history,
and there was so much life but it's still home to me, very much, when I'm there.

DS: So who is the dad you remember?

LISA MARIE: Just a very special … I remember him as my dad but he was a very exciting dad.

DS: You talk about his coming down the stairs with jewels.

LISA MARIE: Chains, yeah. And he'd sing all the time.

DS: Did he want you to sing? Do you ever …

LISA MARIE: Oh yeah, he'd always wake me up to sing in the middle of the night,
"Get on the table and sing."

DS: Even now, when she hears her father singing, something seems to flicker across her face.
Something that takes you back to the four and five-year-old little girl who loved her glittering dad,
but was haunted by the shadows behind the light.

Did you worry about him?

LISA MARIE: All the time. All the time.

DS: What would you say?

LISA MARIE: "Don't die." You know, things like that. Like, "Are you going to die?",
and I would just, like, in the middle of whatever say that.
He would … "No, I'm not going anywhere, nothing's going happen to me, don't worry about it"
type-thing.

DS: She remembers time with him as magical days.
He'd hire a jet to take her just to see the snow or hire a whole
amusement park so she could ride the carousel.
Did it feel luxurious?

Lisa Marie: You know, with him no, because it was his Heart that was permeating more than …
I'm in a jet and it's, like, this man loves me.
He even recorded lullabies.

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