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

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

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.

I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.

I've got quite a good brain and all that, which I've never had to use in singing at all.

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.

I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.