British - Musician | December 29, 1946 -
If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.
Marianne Faithfull
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I've got quite a good brain and all that, which I've never had to use in singing at all.
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Of course I have regrets; I'm not stupid.
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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.
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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.
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I don't talk about my private life.
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I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
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I never saw myself as beautiful. I can look back and see it now, but then? Never.
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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.
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I get all dressed up with that Marianne Faithfull face, and the next thing I know, I'm blurting out things that I shouldn't, trying to get attention when, really, I've got everybody's attention already.
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I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.
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I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'
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