Lisa Marie Presley’s Best Quotes About Motherhood

Speaking fondly of her family! Lisa Marie Presley became a mom in 1989 and was open about raising her kids in the years that followed.
Three years after the singer and then-husband Danny Keough‘s daughter, Riley, arrived, their son, Benjamin, was born. Presley went on to welcome twins, Harper and Finley, in 2008 with Michael Lockwood.
In 2012, the Tennessee native opened up about Benjamin’s resemblance to her father, Elvis Presley. “He was at the [Grand Old] Opry and was the quiet storm behind the stage!” she told CMT at the time. “Everybody turned around and looked when he was over there. Everybody was grabbing him for a photo because it is just uncanny. Sometimes I am overwhelmed when I look at him.”
When asked about Benjamin’s musical aspirations the following year, Lisa told Huffington Post: “He’s doing his own thing right now. I’m going to let him decide when he wants to go out and do what he wants to do.”
Benjamin died in July 2020 in Calabasas, California, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Deputies were called to the house regarding a “rescue response” call and found Keough “suffering from one gunshot wound to the upper torso,” the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department said in a press release. He was pronounced dead at the scene and an investigation is ongoing.”
Lisa Marie’s rep, Roger Widynowski, told Us Weekly in a statement at the time: “She is entirely heartbroken, inconsolable and beyond devastated but trying to stay strong for her 11-year-old twins and her oldest daughter Riley. She adored that boy. He was the love of her life.”
The Florida native was an actor and musician. In 2009, he scored a five-album record deal with Universal worth $5 million, noting in an interview at the time that his music “would be nothing like Elvis, nothing like him at all.”
Us confirmed in January 2023 that Lisa Marie passed away at age 54. Priscilla announced the news hours after she went into cardiac arrest.
Keep scrolling to see Lisa’s quotes about her children, from being a protective “mama lion” to getting matching tattoos.

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Lisa Marie Presley’s Best Quotes About Motherhood: ‘My Fave People in the World’
Speaking fondly of her family! Lisa Marie Presley became a mom in 1989 and was open about raising her kids in the years that followed.
Three years after the singer and then-husband Danny Keough‘s daughter, Riley, arrived, their son, Benjamin, was born. Presley went on to welcome twins, Harper and Finley, in 2008 with Michael Lockwood.
In 2012, the Tennessee native opened up about Benjamin’s resemblance to her father, Elvis Presley. “He was at the [Grand Old] Opry and was the quiet storm behind the stage!” she told CMT at the time. “Everybody turned around and looked when he was over there. Everybody was grabbing him for a photo because it is just uncanny. Sometimes I am overwhelmed when I look at him.”
When asked about Benjamin’s musical aspirations the following year, Lisa told Huffington Post: “He’s doing his own thing right now. I’m going to let him decide when he wants to go out and do what he wants to do.”
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Benjamin died in July 2020 in Calabasas, California, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Deputies were called to the house regarding a “rescue response” call and found Keough “suffering from one gunshot wound to the upper torso,” the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department said in a press release. He was pronounced dead at the scene and an investigation is ongoing.”
Lisa Marie’s rep, Roger Widynowski, told Us Weekly in a statement at the time: “She is entirely heartbroken, inconsolable and beyond devastated but trying to stay strong for her 11-year-old twins and her oldest daughter Riley. She adored that boy. He was the love of her life.”
The Florida native was an actor and musician. In 2009, he scored a five-album record deal with Universal worth $5 million, noting in an interview at the time that his music “would be nothing like Elvis, nothing like him at all.”
Us confirmed in January 2023 that Lisa Marie passed away at age 54. Priscilla announced the news hours after she went into cardiac arrest.
Keep scrolling to see Lisa’s quotes about her children, from being a protective “mama lion” to getting matching tattoos.
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July 2022
Two years after his death, Lisa Marie paid tribute to son Ben via Instagram by sharing a photo of their matching tattoos. “Several years ago, on Mother’s Day, my son and I got these matching tattoos on our feet,” she captioned the photo of their ink. “It’s a Celtic eternity knot. Symbolizing that we will be connected eternally. We carefully picked it to represent our eternal love and our eternal bond. 💔😞 .”

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June 2022
Lisa Marie and Riley opened up about the 2022 Elvis biopic in a sit-down with Good Morning America.
“It was such an emotional [experience]. Like Riley said, it just brings up such generational trauma — in a good way,” the Mars Attacks! star explained. “And Riley, five minutes in, was already like, ‘I’m done.’ She was already crying and I was crying.”

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February 2021
“Thank you for all of the overwhelming birthday wishes from everyone,” Lisa Marie wrote via Instagram on her 53rd birthday, alongside a photo with her three daughters. “Like everyday, I couldn’t have made it through without these three by my side. 💙~ LMP.”

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June 2019
The “Storm and Grace” singer posed with her “cubs” in an Instagram family photo.

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December 2018
Lisa called her daughters her “fave people in the world” after watching the Nutcracker Ballet.

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October 2014
“I am very protective,” she told Healthy Living magazine. “I just smother them in love and I am also ferociously protective. They are my priority. That’s what I do. That’s what I care most about. I keep them close to me and make sure they are happy and healthy.”
Lisa added at the time: “When they get older sometimes I don’t think it ever ends. When they get past 18 I think their problems just get bigger to be honest; that’s always a struggle. We all kind of hold each other up; we are all each other’s best friends. I’m theirs but I am also their mother.”

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October 2012
“They’ve all got a little bit of [Elvis] in them,” she told CMT. “They all have their own little traits, and I can just sense it.”

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May 2012
Lisa described her tattoo, tweeting, “It is a Celtic eternity knot. Ben (my son) and I got it together in the same place on Mother’s Day 3 years ago.”

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July 2003
“My daughter is 14, and some kids are starting to give her crap [for being a Presley],” she told Playboy. “If there’s a little kid in school that’s being [mean], I want to kick the kid’s ass. If I could, I’d go scare them. It’s at the point where my kids won’t tell me what’s happening.”
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