Marianne Faithfull Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.”

“The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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've got quite a good brain and all that, which I've never had to use in singing at all.”

“I'm alive today, I'm well, I'm working, I'm still creative. What more can I say, really?”

“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.”

“When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.”

“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.”