Quotes by Marianne Faithfull

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

— Marianne Faithfull

Education

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

— Marianne Faithfull

Wisdom

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

— Marianne Faithfull

Wisdom

When you are 18, 19, 20, you're used to being photographed all the time, in a certain way. So, the narcissism becomes almost out of control. And the way that young women are photographed, they become addicted to this feedback of the image.

— Marianne Faithfull

Wisdom

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

— Marianne Faithfull

Wisdom

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

— Marianne Faithfull

Wisdom

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.

— Marianne Faithfull

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Happiness

I'm a Capricorn, and they flower late.

— Marianne Faithfull

Wisdom

I'm having a great life, and I want to go on having one.

— Marianne Faithfull

Life

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

— Marianne Faithfull

Wisdom

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.

— Marianne Faithfull

Success

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

Courage

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.

— Marianne Faithfull

Wisdom

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

Education

The food that's never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, which is delicious. Paris isn't a porridge place, but I can buy it in London when I'm there and bring it back with me.

— Marianne Faithfull

Life

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

— Marianne Faithfull

Life

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

Wisdom

I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, 'the press.'

— Marianne Faithfull

Wisdom

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

— Marianne Faithfull

Wisdom

I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

— Marianne Faithfull

Wisdom

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

Success