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Marianne Faithfull

Profession : Musician

Birth : December 29, 1946

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

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

Marianne Faithfull

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.

Marianne Faithfull

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

Marianne Faithfull

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.

Marianne Faithfull

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.

Marianne Faithfull

I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London.

Marianne Faithfull

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

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.

Marianne Faithfull

I'd love to play a musician in a film.

Marianne Faithfull

I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.

Marianne Faithfull

I have to watch out for being lazy.

Marianne Faithfull

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

Marianne Faithfull

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

Marianne Faithfull

I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.

Marianne Faithfull

I thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what got me was the sound, and hearing it. Hearing everything so loud, I loved that back in the studio. I loved that from the very beginning.

Marianne Faithfull

The equipment you've got really dictates what you're going to do. When I started touring, there were no monitors, so I had to take the sound from the hall, and of course it was on a delay, so I would sing, and then I would hear it back, but later. It was very weird.

Marianne Faithfull

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

I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.

Marianne Faithfull

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

Marianne Faithfull