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.

Life has changed. People have changed. They are more forgiving, less inclined to rush to judgment. And I have changed.

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.

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

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.

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.

I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.