Marianne Faithfull

“I think I'm really powerful. They'll smash me, probably.”

“I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.”

“Well, I really didn't enjoy some of the movies I did when I was young.”

“I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.”

“If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.”

“I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London.”

“I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.”

“I have always been attracted to the bleaker aspects of life. I love drama.”

“The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.”

“When you lose your reputation at 19, you lose everything.”

“I'm not sure yet what my higher mission is, but I have a feeling it might be great. Before, I thought my mission was death, but now my mission is life.”

“I'm having a great life, and I want to go on having one.”

“I do take care of myself; I get my nails done, and I have a skin doctor, but that's it. I'm clean and groomed.”

“I thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what got me was the sound, and hearing it. Hearing everything so loud, I loved that back in the studio. I loved that from the very beginning.”

“I'm alive today, I'm well, I'm working, I'm still creative. What more can I say, really?”

“I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.”

“Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!”

“I know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth.”

“The equipment you've got really dictates what you're going to do. When I started touring, there were no monitors, so I had to take the sound from the hall, and of course it was on a delay, so I would sing, and then I would hear it back, but later. It was very weird.”

“France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.”