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. – Marianne Faithfull
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
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. – Marianne Faithfull
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. – Marianne Faithfull
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. – Marianne Faithfull
I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work. – Marianne Faithfull
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
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. – Marianne Faithfull
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
The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often. – Marianne Faithfull
Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions. – Marianne Faithfull
