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I never trusted anybody at all. I don’t know why it was so hard, I just didn’t.

Marianne Faithfull

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

Hard Knows Trusted
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
Of course I have regrets; I’m not stupid.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Country People Regret Stupid
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
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
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
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.’
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Body Done Lucky
I’m glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Ashamed Father Mother
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
I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Body Together Yoga
All I have to do is what’s right for me.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

All Country Do People Right
I like my work, but my life always comes first. I always wanted to have a beautiful life, and the way to do it is in show business.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Beautiful Beautiful Life Show Business
I’m interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Death Fame Things
I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Stars Thinking Want

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