135 Quotes by Marianne Faithfull

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

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 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 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.

I think it’s a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

The whole Redlands business gave a patina of gravity to his personality.

Feminism is the best thing to come out of the ’60’s.

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

Of course I have regrets; I’m not stupid.