Marianne Faithfull Quotes
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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.
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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 focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, 'the press.'
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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 don't talk about my private life.
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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.
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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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To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that the cancer was caught at such an early stage that I didn't need chemo or radiotherapy. But I know that cancer is a chronic condition, and once you've had it, you're on the list, because it can come back.
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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.'
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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 come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.
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I know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth.
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Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!
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I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
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Well, I really didn't enjoy some of the movies I did when I was young.
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The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.
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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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Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I've had lots of shocks because it's as though I don't learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me.
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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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Of course I have regrets; I'm not stupid.
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I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.
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I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.
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When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.