Marianne Faithfull Quotes

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.

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

I have always been attracted to the bleaker aspects of life. I love drama.

Never apologize, never explain - didn't we always say that? Well, I haven't and I don't.

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

Of course I have regrets; I'm not stupid.

I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

If you analyze the bad times you find that it's because you wanted to have a bad time.

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

The nice thing about us lot is that what we do is of no consequence. We don't do things that are important; we spend our lives doing things which are not important. That's what's nice about us, we're not pompous. We never do anything very bad that's gonna change the world. We're not serious, we're butterflies. We live for a day.

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

Feminism is the best thing to come out of the '60's.

I've made a contribution to my time and my generation through being myself, not through what I shared with the Rolling Stones. It's very bad for me and very dangerous to see myself as someone who had an influence on this song or that song. It immediately puts me in the position where my worth is dependent on how much of my soul I shared with Mick Jagger, and it's just not valid. You can use the gossip you've heard. You're not getting it from me.

I've done everything I want to do and gone everywhere I want to go.

There is a land that I can go to When I have time to rest. All the people I love are there And those who love me best.

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

I never saw myself as beautiful. I can look back and see it now, but then? Never.

I don't talk about my private life.

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.

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.

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.

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 do sometimes think I could have done without the drugs actually; that was a waste of time, and a huge risk. But then again, there's nothing I can change, so in a way regret is pointless.

Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.