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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.

- Marianne Faithfull

Think, Some, Very, Groovy

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.

- Marianne Faithfull

Love, Dad, Classical, Canon

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

- Marianne Faithfull

Left, Socialist, Very, Anti-War

I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it's not lived drawing on a full level. I'm relaxed, cool, and enjoying it.

- Marianne Faithfull

Cool, Level, Very, Relaxed

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.

- Marianne Faithfull

Big, Very, Warhol, Retrospective

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

- Marianne Faithfull

Bad, More, Makes, Locked

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.

- Marianne Faithfull

Some, Brilliant, Very, Entourage

I've got a lot of little compulsive problems, and I've thought about it a lot. And one of the things I ask myself is, 'What are the things I can do that won't hurt me and will help me?' The first answer is work.

- Marianne Faithfull

Thought, One Of The Things, Compulsive

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.

- Marianne Faithfull

Back, Caught, Had, Chronic

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

- Marianne Faithfull

Want, Go, Having, Great Life

The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.

- Marianne Faithfull

Often, Which, Fed, Only Time

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.

- Marianne Faithfull

Singing, Opera, See, Maria

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

- Marianne Faithfull

I Am, Like, Get, Frightened

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.

- Marianne Faithfull

Beginning, Bad, Months, Drawer

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.

- Marianne Faithfull

Wake Up, Sometimes, Had, Shocks

I think I'm really powerful. They'll smash me, probably.

- Marianne Faithfull

Powerful, Think, I Think, Smash

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.

- Marianne Faithfull

Luck, Role, Very, None

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.

- Marianne Faithfull

Young, Certain Way, Almost, Narcissism

I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.

- Marianne Faithfull

Voice, Sound, Rough, Learnt

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

- Marianne Faithfull

Through, Songs, Show, Feelings

My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream they'd pour all over bits of lettuce, cucumber and tomato. It was just disgusting.

- Marianne Faithfull

Salad, Over, Commune, Cucumber

I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.

- Marianne Faithfull

Strong, Mean, Explain, Strong Sense

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

- Marianne Faithfull

Writing, More, Metaphor, Simplified

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.

- Marianne Faithfull

Small, Delicate, Very, Agenda

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.

- Marianne Faithfull

Myths, About, Had, Um

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.

- Marianne Faithfull

Over, Very, Likely, Depressed

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

- Marianne Faithfull

Think, Shame, Became, Empire

I have to watch out for being lazy.

- Marianne Faithfull

Lazy, Watch, Being, Being Lazy

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

- Marianne Faithfull

Doors, Phrase, Explicit, Perception

I thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what got me was the sound, and hearing it. Hearing everything so loud, I loved that back in the studio. I loved that from the very beginning.

- Marianne Faithfull

Been, Studio, Very, Hearing

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