Marianne Faithfull Thinking Quotations

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

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

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.

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.

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'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 think you have to really, really want to be a film star.

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

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.