I was anorexic in the 60s and 70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.

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 don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.

Feminism is the best thing to come out of the '60's.

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

I don't talk about my private life.

I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.