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
head lovers
Lovers can do what they like to me - my head is cool.
love
I'd love to play a musician in a film.
british-musician smash
I think I'm really powerful. They'll smash me, probably.
I took drugs because we all took drugs.
bought grow life love save work
I want to see my grandchildren grow up. I want to be there for my friends. I want to be able to love the person in my life. I want to work. I want to do something I've never done, which is save money. I've never bought anything. I have nothing.
death feeling great higher life might mission sure
I'm not sure yet what my higher mission is, but I have a feeling it might be great. Before, I thought my mission was death, but now my mission is life.
air majesty discs
I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.
done body littles
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.'
song feelings way
The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
hate three looks
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.
mother reading thinking
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.
delay sound touring
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.
attitude myth turns
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.
cancer panic firsts
To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that the cancer was caught at such an early stage that I didn't need chemo or radiotherapy. But I know that cancer is a chronic condition, and once you've had it, you're on the list, because it can come back.