Marianne Faithfull

Musician

1946-12-29

Books by Marianne Faithfull

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The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
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The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
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I think I'm really powerful. They'll smash me, probably.
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I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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