About Marianne Faithfull: Marianne Evelyn Faithfull is an English singer, songwriter and actress, whose career has spanned six decades.
France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.
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 never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.
I took drugs because we all took drugs.
I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.
Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!
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 shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.
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.
I know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth.
I'm a Capricorn, and they flower late.
I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.
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.
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 con...
I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.
I have to watch out for being lazy.
I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.
I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
All I have to do is what's right for me.
I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'
