# Lisa Marie Presley on Elvis, Graceland and Michael Jackson - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2119194625252680118 - Source account: [@xlarckk](https://x.com/xlarckk) - Source language: English - Duration: 6:15 - Published: 2026-11-09 - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson) And I was talking about your father's appearance here 46 years ago in this theater. [0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=3) That's amazing, isn't it? It's very intimidating. Yeah. [0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=5) Have you ever been in the Ed Sullivan Theater? I haven't. This is the first time. [0:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=8) Really? It's very endearing. I did sound check earlier. [0:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=10) It's really nice. And, and you must have seen, of course, the footage of, of your father's performance that night. Yes. [0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=15) And a- that's when they had that silly thing about they couldn't shoot him from the waist down. Right. [0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=18) Do, do you remember any discussion of that later in his life around the house? [0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=22) Did that ever come up again? Did you ever hear any of that? [0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=24) No. No. No, I think by then he had it figured out pretty well. [0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=27) Yeah, I think he did have it figured out. [0:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=29) And, uh, like I was talking to Paul earlier, uh, in your own career, in your own life, what have you learned from your father? [0:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=35) What, what is an important lesson from your father that you carry with you every day? [0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=39) Um, I can't say the word I'm thinking, but um- No, no, go ahead, say it. Balls. [0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=44) I'm sorry? Balls. [0:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=52) I see. [0:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=55) And, and in, in what context? You mean just to be a little tougher, a little braver? [0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=58) You know, he just, you know, broke through so many different, um, you know, that- Oh, oh, just speaking of your father. Yes. [1:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=64) He, and then I somehow grew them somewhere along the line. [1:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=68) No. [1:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=79) I did not know that. I was not aware. And you wonder why I got nervous. [1:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=84) Now. Now you start to understand. Uh, um, a- and what about, uh, his music? [1:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=90) What, what songs, what era, what, uh, what is, what is your favorite song of his? [1:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=94) I'm sort of prone to the, like, post-'70s thing, uh, music. [1:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=97) And, and those songs would be, what are we talking about? [1:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=99) You know, like, um, Kentucky Rain and In the Ghetto. Mm-hmm. In the Ghetto, yeah. [1:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=102) Older, you know. [1:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=107) Do you, do you still listen to his music? I do. Yeah. [1:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=110) Often, or you? Um, I have to be in a certain mindset, but yeah. Yeah. [1:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=115) Have you... And I guess I know the answer to this- ... but you must have been back to Graceland, uh, several times, uh, since you lived there, right? [2:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=120) Yeah, I go back two or three times a year. Now, what is that experience like for you when you go back into this house and, and it's not really, it's identical, but it's not really the same, is it? [2:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=128) It can't possibly be the same. No, it is. It's not been touched. [2:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=130) Uh, particularly the upstairs. It's, it's, it's kind of capsulized. [2:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=134) Yeah, but I mean emotionally it can't be the same as it was when you were living there. No, no. Yeah. [2:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=139) It's kind of, uh, yeah, it's odd. Yeah. How does it make you feel when you go there? [2:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=144) It, uh, depends. Sad, you know, that type of thing. Oh, really? [2:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=147) It brings back sad feelings for you? Well, good and bad. [2:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=150) It's sort of a beautiful sadness, I guess you could say. Yeah. Yeah. [2:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=153) Um, and Michael Jackson, you were married to him for how long? [2:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=156) Ah. [2:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=161) What? [2:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=166) About two years, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Mm-hmm. [2:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=170) And, and was, is, was he as strange then as he is now? [2:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=174) Well, first of all, first of all, that's unfair. [2:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=176) Do you, do you think he is strange? Um, lately, you know, I have the same opinion I think everyone else has. Right. [3:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=183) And, and what do you think happened there? Did something go wrong? [3:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=188) I, you know, uh, you mean since I was with him? [3:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=190) No, no, just, just, just as a guy. Let's just say that you had nothing to do with him. But just as somebody of- I don't, and I don't mean that the way people think I mean it. [3:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=199) But just as somebody might comment on anybody else's career, what do you think went wrong there in his career and in, i- if in fact something went wrong. [3:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=206) I th- I think something has gone wrong. Something, something's gone awry, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I don't know what. Yeah. [3:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=211) Were, were there any signs of it when you and he were married? [3:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=215) Um, there, you know, I left. Yeah. Oh, yeah. [3:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=224) Okay, fair enough. Now tell me about, uh, you have two kids of your own now. [3:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=229) Yes. Uh, well, the older is, uh, 13 you said? 13. Yeah. [3:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=231) Now, when you're raising your kids, do, do you ever remember similar moments when you were a k- a kid being raised by your family at home, and they bring back memories of, uh, what would your father do? [4:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=241) And do you, you ever have, uh, m- moments like that where you need that advice or that memory? [4:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=246) Um, nothing worked on me particularly. Really? No. [4:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=251) And nothing's working on my daughter, so it's... [4:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=255) So there, she, she's very much like you were then. Yes. Yeah. [4:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=257) She- She's headed there. She's a little more together than I was- Yeah ... somehow. [4:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=260) And, and what do you remember about your dad as your father? [4:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=264) What memories do you have of, of him as just a guy? [4:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=266) Oh, I have a lot of them. Mm-hmm. I don't usually go into them 'cause I don't really like, it, it's odd for me to talk about that when I'm- Right ... you know, uh, something has gotta be left of mine somewhere. Mm-hmm. [4:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=277) Yeah, that's, well, that's right, and I respect that, but you would be one of a handful of people that know, uh, things that nobody else would ever have a way of knowing about your father. Mm-hmm. And you wanna keep it that way. [4:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=286) Mm. Yeah, I understand. Yeah. Yeah. And, and what, what do you and your family do for fun when you wanna go to, uh, I guess you go on vacation and stuff. [4:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=292) What kind of things do you do? I, you know, go to Hawaii, travel, things like that. Right. Just normal stuff? [4:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=297) You're very good-looking in person. [5:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=309) Oh, well, that's very nice of you to say. [5:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=311) And I, I think you couldn't be lovelier. [5:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=312) My God, you're- Thank you ... what an attractive woman. [5:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=314) Thank you. [5:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=318) What do you think, Paul? How's it going? [5:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=320) Swingingly, Dave. Yeah. Swingingly. Um, and in a minute you're gonna sing for us. Are you- Oh, God ... are you excited about that? [5:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=328) Um, yeah. [5:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=331) Well, this is, this is only my third, fourth time in front of a crowd, so- Really? [5:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=336) And it's of course, you know, on national television, so I mean. Yeah. [5:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=339) And, uh, how do you like performing before a live audience? [5:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=342) If you've only done it three times, it's exhilarating, isn't it? [5:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=344) It's a, a little nerve-wracking right now just because of the curiosity factor and the speculation and nerves- Right ... thing is, I can feel it, so I have to sort of, I need to get my feet wet. [5:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=353) They're sort of throwing the baby out with the bath water with me, right? Yeah. [5:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=356) But I think, I think you'll do very well here tonight because these people are great. They're very supportive, and they like you. [6:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=360) Yes, you can see that. They, they've taken a very nice- [6:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=368) Well- Thank you ... it's a real thrill to meet you. It's a thrill to meet you. [6:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ISfWyQ3iIm0R/en/lisa-marie-presley-on-elvis-graceland-and-michael-jackson?t=372) It, it really, really is. I'm happy-