Marianne Faithfull Quotes

If you analyze the bad times you find that it's because you wanted to have a bad time.

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 don't talk about my private life.

I've done everything I want to do and gone everywhere I want to go.

There is a land that I can go to When I have time to rest. All the people I love are there And those who love me best.

Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I've had lots of shocks because it's as though I don't learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me.

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

I'm having a great life, and I want to go on having one.

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

I love the Stones, but I've gone to a lot of gigs.

I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.

I'm never, never sure which way to go. I'm full of unsureness. That's been a habit for years. I never really want to commit.

I have to be able to love somebody except myself and the theater.

I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

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

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.

I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.

For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn't. I don't think it really is for most people anyway. Most people are not very happy.

I don't see decadence really as what you do, because I don't do much at all that is decadent in my life. But I still am decadent. It's a state of mind, I think.

Life has changed. People have changed. They are more forgiving, less inclined to rush to judgment. And I have changed.

I'm a Capricorn, and they flower late.

I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, "the press."