Marianne Faithfull Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.'”

“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.”

“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 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.”

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

“Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!”

“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 never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.”

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