Polk-Salad-Annie
06-14-2009, 08:52 AM
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Q. How often in your lifetime have you heard the words, "You look just like your dad?"
A. It goes back and forth.
My mom, my dad, my mom, my dad.
Particularly lately.
You know what happens when I'm singing?
My lip -- if I'm in a certain mood -- my lip will naturally, instinctively go up when I'm snarling or when I'm upset onstage or when I'm really into whatever I'm singing.
And that's not intentional.
But I see these photos regularly of comparisons of him and me with that lip going up.
It's not something that I try to do, but it happens.
Q. Must be genetic.
A. It is genetic, because I honestly don't know what I look like when I'm singing.
I don't know how I look, I don't know what's going on, until I see a photo afterwards.
Then it's like, "Ah, there we have it."
Q:I have this theory that men find you attractive because you look so much like your dad.
But whereas it wasn't OK for straight men to fancy your father, it's fine to fancy you.
A: "What are you trying to say? (silence) I've never thought about it like that.
Maybe you're right."
"I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that," she says.
"Something's got to be my own.
I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.
You know what I mean?"
Q: You were visiting [your father] at Graceland in 1977, when he died?
I was there when he died.
I was there for most of the summer.
I'm actually not going to go into his death, the day of, the whole thing.
Just so you know.
I avoid that in all interviews, It's not something I like to capitalize on--particularily for people's amusement."
Q: What characteristics have you inherited from your dad?
A: If you ask my family in Memphis, they'll tell you "Every one of her characteristics," but I'll say sense of humor and temper.
He didn't have a quick temper, but when he was angry, he was ang-ry.
If you betrayed him or he was hurt by someone, oh, God, the roof would blow off the house.
And that's how I get.
I want asses served to me on a platter for lunch when I'm angry.
Q: When you think of your father, what do you think of?
A: That he could do no wrong in my eyes.
He was a larger-than-life figure to me, someone I admired in everyway.
I was daddy's girl.
There's a saying that the true test of a human is his ability to handle power.
I think it's true.
You could give a perfectly fine person a lot of power and watch him struggle with it and try to figure it out.
He was in a situation that would never be easy for anyone, and he didn't understand why it was all happening to him.
People in that situation destroy themselves, because they don't know what to do with the admiration.
Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin--they overdo it, over-indulge, because there's nothing else to compensate.
I understand all that.
"I just adored him and the ground he walked on," she says.
"I looked up to him and you know he... what's the word I'm looking for?
They're some tough shoes to fill, in my mind.
My impression of him can probably explain some of my insanity in looking for a perfect male (laughs) in my life."
"I'm female, thank God, because if I was male this really would be difficult," she says.
"And, of course, I don't attempt to sound like my father - I do my own thing.
Those sorts of comparisons are something I was intimidated by for a very long time.
But I had to go with it.
Music is a huge part of my life, and I had to park all that fear and not let it stop something that was important to me."
Q. How often in your lifetime have you heard the words, "You look just like your dad?"
A. It goes back and forth.
My mom, my dad, my mom, my dad.
Particularly lately.
You know what happens when I'm singing?
My lip -- if I'm in a certain mood -- my lip will naturally, instinctively go up when I'm snarling or when I'm upset onstage or when I'm really into whatever I'm singing.
And that's not intentional.
But I see these photos regularly of comparisons of him and me with that lip going up.
It's not something that I try to do, but it happens.
Q. Must be genetic.
A. It is genetic, because I honestly don't know what I look like when I'm singing.
I don't know how I look, I don't know what's going on, until I see a photo afterwards.
Then it's like, "Ah, there we have it."
Q:I have this theory that men find you attractive because you look so much like your dad.
But whereas it wasn't OK for straight men to fancy your father, it's fine to fancy you.
A: "What are you trying to say? (silence) I've never thought about it like that.
Maybe you're right."
"I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that," she says.
"Something's got to be my own.
I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.
You know what I mean?"
Q: You were visiting [your father] at Graceland in 1977, when he died?
I was there when he died.
I was there for most of the summer.
I'm actually not going to go into his death, the day of, the whole thing.
Just so you know.
I avoid that in all interviews, It's not something I like to capitalize on--particularily for people's amusement."
Q: What characteristics have you inherited from your dad?
A: If you ask my family in Memphis, they'll tell you "Every one of her characteristics," but I'll say sense of humor and temper.
He didn't have a quick temper, but when he was angry, he was ang-ry.
If you betrayed him or he was hurt by someone, oh, God, the roof would blow off the house.
And that's how I get.
I want asses served to me on a platter for lunch when I'm angry.
Q: When you think of your father, what do you think of?
A: That he could do no wrong in my eyes.
He was a larger-than-life figure to me, someone I admired in everyway.
I was daddy's girl.
There's a saying that the true test of a human is his ability to handle power.
I think it's true.
You could give a perfectly fine person a lot of power and watch him struggle with it and try to figure it out.
He was in a situation that would never be easy for anyone, and he didn't understand why it was all happening to him.
People in that situation destroy themselves, because they don't know what to do with the admiration.
Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin--they overdo it, over-indulge, because there's nothing else to compensate.
I understand all that.
"I just adored him and the ground he walked on," she says.
"I looked up to him and you know he... what's the word I'm looking for?
They're some tough shoes to fill, in my mind.
My impression of him can probably explain some of my insanity in looking for a perfect male (laughs) in my life."
"I'm female, thank God, because if I was male this really would be difficult," she says.
"And, of course, I don't attempt to sound like my father - I do my own thing.
Those sorts of comparisons are something I was intimidated by for a very long time.
But I had to go with it.
Music is a huge part of my life, and I had to park all that fear and not let it stop something that was important to me."