Lisa Marie Presley: LA is shallow and I want to live in the cultured UK

Lisa Marie Presley has a new interview with UK's Hello! Magazine in which she shows off her adorable one year-old twin daughters, Finley and Harper. (We can't publish the photos here but The Daily Mail has the main one.) She seems pretty jaded, which is how she usually sounds I guess. Presley says that she loves the UK where she's temporarily living and would like to make her move to England permanent. She also talks about her love for her daughters and her pain after the death of her ex husband, Michael Jackson. I was going to type the interview in, but then I found that The Daily Mail has most of it, save for a few quotes I added, particularly one about how LA is shallow and so temperate that Presley just doesn't trust it.

On her one year-old twin daughters
‘They both have such a sweetness about them that it breaks our heart.
‘We want desperately to preserve their purity, love and trust for as long as we can before people and life cause the inevitable souring and contamination.
'It is incredible that we all start out so pure, so genuine, happy and trusting.

On how LA is too sunny and superficial
‘Ah yes, my dislike for L.A. The city has really gotten dramaticalyl worse in the last five or six years, even more shallow, if that's even possible. I find any place that is perpetually sunny suspect and wrong, anyway. I can honestly say that I am the only person who came to England for the weather! I love the cold and the rain. To answer your question, we have fallen in love with the UK and it is our hope to live here some day.'

On how much better England is than the US
‘We have found the quality of life so much more enriching and fulfilling. The civility, the culture, the people and its beauty have reawakened me and have smoothed out some of my bleak and jagged views about people and life.'

‘Only some though - ha ha!'

On how her husband helped her get through her grief at MJ's death
‘There have been so many layers of grief in Michael's death, so many different aspects and angles that have at times overwhelmed me, which I am still dealing with, to be honest.'

‘I am incredibly fortunate that I have an amazing husband who has been unbelievably understanding and supportive throughout the process. He has cried with me, he has left me alone to cry if that's what I needed. I have never met a more selfless and supportive person.'

[From Hello! print edition, October 26, 2009, some quotes via The Daily Mail]

As someone who has been living abroad for four years, in my experience there's no ideal place to live. You'll miss things about the US if you move overseas and if you move back you'll miss things about the place you used to call home. There are advantages and disadvantages to just about anywhere. Just because a place seems great when you're on vacation doesn't mean you'll feel the same once you move there. There's also the old saying 'wherever you go, there you are.' For someone with an outlook as bleak as Presley, that's doubly true. Look at Gwyneth Paltrow and Madonna. They loved merry old England until they lived there for a while, and then they inevitably found things to complain about. It's not the place - it's you. That said, it must be awful to see your ex husband's death and strange life discussed ad nauseum in the press and Presley deserves some credit for being honest about what she's going through. Maybe things will look up for her as time passes.