I was told that I had very likely been clinically depressed for a long, long time, probably since I was 15, or even 14. It explained, to me at least, a lot of my behaviour over the years.
France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.
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 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.
I'm having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
All I have to do is what's right for me.
I love the Stones, but I've gone to a lot of gigs.
If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.
It's always a good idea to get yourself a famous, rich, and groovy young man. That's one of the best-known methods of furthering your career.
I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.
I'm a tame actress. I get tired now that I'm entertaining day and night professionally. I think the only reason for going to a party is to pick up a good lay. When you've got a permanent boyfriend it's rather spoilt. Because the fun of a party is to flirt with everyone. I like flirting.
I'm never, never sure which way to go. I'm full of unsureness. That's been a habit for years. I never really want to commit.
I have to be able to love somebody except myself and the theater.
When you split from someone, it doesn't have to mean that you don't love them anymore, you realize that the period of that particular romance is over. One always has to get out before one gets kicked out.
I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.
I have to watch out for being lazy.
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've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.
For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn't. I don't think it really is for most people anyway. Most people are not very happy.
I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.
I don't see decadence really as what you do, because I don't do much at all that is decadent in my life. But I still am decadent. It's a state of mind, I think.
I'm a Capricorn, and they flower late.
Life has changed. People have changed. They are more forgiving, less inclined to rush to judgment. And I have changed.
I've got a lot of little compulsive problems, and I've thought about it a lot. And one of the things I ask myself is, 'What are the things I can do that won't hurt me and will help me?' The first answer is work.
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.
