I get all dressed up with that Marianne Faithfull face, and the next thing I know, I'm blurting out things that I shouldn't, trying to get attention when, really, I've got everybody's attention already.

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

Never apologize, never explain - didn't we always say that? Well, I haven't and I don't.

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

I do sometimes think I could have done without the drugs actually; that was a waste of time, and a huge risk. But then again, there's nothing I can change, so in a way regret is pointless.

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

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.