135 Quotes by Marianne Faithfull

I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.

I have always been attracted to the bleaker aspects of life. I love drama.

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.

All I have to do is what's right for me.

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

I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

I've made a contribution to my time and my generation through being myself, not through what I shared with the Rolling Stones. It's very bad for me and very dangerous to see myself as someone who had an influence on this song or that song. It immediately puts me in the position where my worth is dependent on how much of my soul I shared with Mick Jagger, and it's just not valid. You can use the gossip you've heard. You're not getting it from me.

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 got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.