I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, "the press."
I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.
The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.
I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.
It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.
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.
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.
When you lose your reputation at 19, you lose everything.
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 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.
I serve black tea, which I call Froggy tea. And I have green teas and all sorts of nice teas. I'm serving tea all the time.
My first job was singing at the Hammersmith Odeon. It was years ago, so I can't remember who I was performing with. I was a sort of anti-climax after two hours of heavy rock-'n'-roll. Seventeen years old in a white dress. It was the first time that I got applause. Wonderful, that noise in my ears.
I want to do movies, but I want to do something that's good. I don't want to make any more films until I feel that I'm ready for it. I want to have good work, and a very elegant life. I believe you get what you want.
I'd love to make more money in America, that's the heart of it. I make much more money in Europe. It's a shame. I'm trying now to make a profit on this next tour, and I'll be much happier.
You know the first objective is to get out of your hometown, second objective, get it together in the capital. The awful thing about left the school, is that you'd feel you'd be important. It would matter what you did.
I like my work, but my life always comes first. I always wanted to have a beautiful life, and the way to do it is in show business.
I'd really like people to see me as a real actress, which I am, but they don't. It's hard to get them to see me as a musician, they just see me as a hanger-on to the Stones, which is not what I am at all. It's a good idea, and if something like that would turn up I could do a whole television show. I've thought about playing a landlady, sort of a mad '60s lady, this absolutely insane character. I would love it. It's a great idea.
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.
Relationships have a nasty habit of reversing themselves; whatever has been done to you in a previous involvement you'll do to the next person you're involved with, if you get half a chance.
I get all dressed up with that Marianne Faithfull face, and the next thing I know, I'm blurting out things that I shouldn't, trying to get attention when, really, I've got everybody's attention already.
I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.
I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.
I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.
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.
