Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfullis an English singer, songwriter and actress. She achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her hit single "As Tears Go By" and became one of the lead female artists during the "British Invasion" in the United States...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth29 December 1946
feminism best-things
Feminism is the best thing to come out of the '60's.
fame
I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
thinking drug way
I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.
thinking america empires
I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.
people anorexia would-be
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.
song gossip soul
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.
years long behaviour
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.
dad parent classical-music
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.
should-have interesting way
Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting.
way narcissism feedback
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.
artist luck trying
My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or Mick Jagger is a very, very destructive role for a woman trying to be herself. In fact, it can't be done.
song funny-relationship bad-relationship
Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.
uprising alive rebellion
Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!