I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.
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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.
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.
I know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth.
The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.
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.
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 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 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'm a Capricorn, and they flower late.
I'm having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.
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.
I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, 'the press.'
I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.
I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.
I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.
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