Before 2013 Fort Worth visit, Lisa Marie Presley said ‘I wasn’t raised normally.’

The late singer Lisa Marie Presley has several Fort Worth connections, the Star-Telegram wrote in a 2013 interview before a concert here.

Her 2012 album, “Storm & Grace,” was produced by Fort Worth music maven T Bone Burnett.

Perhaps most notably, the “Lisa Marie,” the private Convair 880 jet that Elvis named for his daughter, was refurbished to his design requirements at Fort Worth’s Meacham Field.

Presley performed in 2013 at Queen City Music Hall, with Burleson singer Reagan James of “The Voice” opening along with Big Joe Walker.

“The music’s very intimate,” Presley said then.

“It’s not for a stadium — I couldn’t even imagine that. For me, I’m more comfortable in this sort of venues. I love theaters, clubs, those kinds of venues. I think they work well with the tone of the music.”

Star-Telegram music writer Robert Philpot wrote: “There will always be Elvis connections, but this show is very much about Lisa Marie Presley and her voice - a smoky, blues-inflected instrument used to good effect on the aptly titled ‘Storm & Grace,’ her first album in seven years and one that has moments of stormy toughness and graceful beauty.”

“I had gone through a lot,” Presley said in the interview with Philpot.

“I think my first two records, I was kind of finding my way and needing to grow, but I had to kind of do it in front of everybody,” she said.

“There was always a question of where to market me. I think there was a push to get me into pop under previous associations, and that didn’t really work out, because that wasn’t where my heart was.”

Presley, then 45, said she always considered herself a singer-songwriter.

“Everything around me kind of went up in flames,” Presley said. “My stability, all the things I was surrounded by, went away.

“I opened my eyes and realized that things weren’t always as they appeared. I was in a very toxic situation and got rid of everything and everyone, including my last record company, and moved as far away as I could because I wanted the freedom to see what would happen.”

Presley went to England, writing some 30 songs there, working with such writers as Richard Hawley of alternative-pop group Pulp and eclectic musician Ed Harcourt. She had wanted to work with Burnett, who was impressed enough with the demos to produce the album, skewing toward its rootsier material more than the poppier songs Presley had co-written.

“He responded immediately, which I was overjoyed with, because I felt like my light was going out,” Presley said. “When he agreed to take on the project, it sort of resurrected my flame. I had more confidence and I was really thankful that he believed in me and took me under his wing a little bit. Actually, a lot.”

Father Elvis Presley and her mother, actress Priscilla Presley, divorced when Lisa Marie was 4, and she spent time at both of their homes - including Graceland, where she was staying when her father died when she was 9.

“I wouldn’t say [my life’s] been turbulent,” she said. “It’s been interesting. It’s different, but I wasn’t born into a normal situation anyway. I didn’t live normally, I wasn’t raised normally, I wasn’t raised by normal standards. I’m very strong, but everyone has their moment where they can break. Life can kick you pretty hard. But I’ve had my share of hits, and I think this record captures that as well.”

Because of her father’s legacy, she had some hesitation about taking on her own recording career. But music has been too important to her, so she found her own path.

“Music has saved my life so many times,” she said. “If I could help people and do something productive with it, it’s in my heart and it’s what I feel and what I love doing the most, whether I was a kid writing or when I was in my 20s and started writing music. ... I meet people after the show, and they tell me what songs have done, how they’ve changed them, gotten them through something - that’s pretty much what feeds me.”

This article contains information from Star-Telegram archives.