France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude. Marianne Faithfull Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Marianne Faithfull Read Quote
I’ve learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn’t sound quite so rough. Marianne Faithfull Read Quote
I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, ‘the press.’ Marianne Faithfull Read Quote
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. Marianne Faithfull Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Marianne Faithfull Read Quote
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. Marianne Faithfull Read Quote
