Marianne Faithfull

“I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.”

“I love the Stones, but I've gone to a lot of gigs.”

“I get all dressed up with that Marianne Faithfull face, and the next thing I know, I'm blurting out things that I shouldn't, trying to get attention when, really, I've got everybody's attention already.”

“My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream they'd pour all over bits of lettuce, cucumber and tomato. It was just disgusting.”

“The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.”

“The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.”

“I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.”

“I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.”

“I took drugs because we all took drugs.”

“All I have to do is what's right for me.”

“I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.”

“I never saw myself as beautiful. I can look back and see it now, but then? Never.”

“I've got quite a good brain and all that, which I've never had to use in singing at all.”

“I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'”

“The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.”

“I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it's not lived drawing on a full level. I'm relaxed, cool, and enjoying it.”

“There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.”

“I've done everything I want to do and gone everywhere I want to go.”

“I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.”

“I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.”