I’ve got quite a good brain and all that, which I’ve never had to use in singing at all.
I’ve done everything I want to do and gone everywhere I want to go.
It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.
I do sometimes think I could have done without the drugs actually; that was a waste of time, and a huge risk. But then again, there’s nothing I can change, so in a way regret is pointless.
Never apologize, never explain – didn’t we always say that? Well, I haven’t and I don’t.
I never saw myself as beautiful. I can look back and see it now, but then? Never.
I love the Stones, but I’ve gone to a lot of gigs.
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.
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.
I never trusted anybody at all. I don’t know why it was so hard, I just didn’t.
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.’
All I have to do is what’s right for me.
Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.
France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.
I know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth.
I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, ‘sociologist.’
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.
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.
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.
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.