There is a land that I can go to When I have time to rest. All the people I love are there And those who love me best.
MARIANNE FAITHFULLThere is a land that I can go to When I have time to rest. All the people I love are there And those who love me best.
MARIANNE FAITHFULLSometimes 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 FAITHFULLPenitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.
MARIANNE FAITHFULLI 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 FAITHFULLI’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 FAITHFULLI once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, ‘sociologist.’
MARIANNE FAITHFULLI 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 FAITHFULLI never trusted anybody at all. I don’t know why it was so hard, I just didn’t.
MARIANNE FAITHFULLI do take care of myself; I get my nails done, and I have a skin doctor, but that’s it. I’m clean and groomed.
MARIANNE FAITHFULLThe first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing ‘Tosca’.
MARIANNE FAITHFULLIf you analyze the bad times you find that it’s because you wanted to have a bad time.
MARIANNE FAITHFULLOf course I have regrets; I’m not stupid.
MARIANNE FAITHFULLAll I have to do is what’s right for me.
MARIANNE FAITHFULLThere 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 FAITHFULLRelationships 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 FAITHFULLI think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL