Marianne Faithfull Quotes

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

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

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

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.

Feminism is the best thing to come out of the '60's.

It's always a good idea to get yourself a famous, rich, and groovy young man. That's one of the best-known methods of furthering your career.

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

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.

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

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

It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.

Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.

When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.

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.'

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

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

I like my work, but my life always comes first. I always wanted to have a beautiful life, and the way to do it is in show business.

I'd love to make more money in America, that's the heart of it. I make much more money in Europe. It's a shame. I'm trying now to make a profit on this next tour, and I'll be much happier.

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

Relationships have a nasty habit of reversing themselves; whatever has been done to you in a previous involvement you'll do to the next person you're involved with, if you get half a chance.

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 think you have to really, really want to be a film star.

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

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

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 to watch out for being lazy.

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

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

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

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

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