Marianne Faithfull

“I serve black tea, which I call Froggy tea. And I have green teas and all sorts of nice teas. I'm serving tea all the time.”

“I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.”

“I have to watch out for being lazy.”

“Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.”

“My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or Mick Jagger is a very, very destructive role for a woman trying to be herself. In fact, it can't be done.”

“I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.”

“The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.”

“I never like photos of myself in the beginning. I live with them for three months, put them in a drawer, take them out and look again. I hate the way I look, but of course it's really not that bad.”

“When you are 18, 19, 20, you're used to being photographed all the time, in a certain way. So, the narcissism becomes almost out of control. And the way that young women are photographed, they become addicted to this feedback of the image.”

“Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting.”

“Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.”

“I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.”

“I've got a lot of little compulsive problems, and I've thought about it a lot. And one of the things I ask myself is, 'What are the things I can do that won't hurt me and will help me?' The first answer is work.”

“I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.”

“Life has changed. People have changed. They are more forgiving, less inclined to rush to judgment. And I have changed.”

“For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn't. I don't think it really is for most people anyway. Most people are not very happy.”

“I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, 'the press.'”

“I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.”

“I want to see my grandchildren grow up. I want to be there for my friends. I want to be able to love the person in my life. I want to work. I want to do something I've never done, which is save money. I've never bought anything. I have nothing.”

“I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.”