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I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.
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All I can say is I've been lucky with my body. Well done, little body. I praise it and say, 'You're very good.'
Marianne Faithfull
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I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.
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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.
Marianne Faithfull -
I was anorexic in the '60s and '70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.
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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.
Marianne Faithfull -
I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
Marianne Faithfull -
I'm having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
Marianne Faithfull
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth.
Marianne Faithfull -
I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, 'the press.'
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Of course I have regrets; I'm not stupid.
Marianne Faithfull
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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.
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The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.
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The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.
Marianne Faithfull -
Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!
Marianne Faithfull -
I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.
Marianne Faithfull -
When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.
Marianne Faithfull
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I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.
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Well, I really didn't enjoy some of the movies I did when I was young.
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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.
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I was told that I had very likely been clinically depressed for a long, long time, probably since I was 15, or even 14. It explained, to me at least, a lot of my behaviour over the years.
Marianne Faithfull