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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

I’m sick of being self-referential. I don’t want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Self Sick Song
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

Feedback Narcissism Way
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

Classical Dad Music Parent
Of course I have regrets; I’m not stupid.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Country People Regret Stupid
I’d love to make more money in America, that’s the heart of it. I make much more money in Europe. It’s a shame. I’m trying now to make a profit on this next tour, and I’ll be much happier.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Heart Shame Trying
When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn’t want any rich man.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Men Mother Want
I’m having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Goes Great Life Want
Relationships have a nasty habit of reversing themselves; whatever has been done to you in a previous involvement you’ll do to the next person you’re involved with, if you get half a chance.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Done Half Involvement Next
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

Able Light Trust Unhappy
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

Answers Hurt Littles
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

Attitude Myth Turns
I’m glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Ashamed Father Mother
The food that’s never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, which is delicious. Paris isn’t a porridge place, but I can buy it in London when I’m there and bring it back with me.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

London Paris Syrup
It’s always a good idea to get yourself a famous, rich, and groovy young man. That’s one of the best-known methods of furthering your career.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Career Groovy Men Rich
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

Mother Reading Thinking
I never trusted anybody at all. I don’t know why it was so hard, I just didn’t.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Hard Knows Trusted

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.

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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.

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