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

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.

If you analyze the bad times you find that it's because you wanted to have a bad time.

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

To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that the cancer was caught at such an early stage that I didn't need chemo or radiotherapy. But I know that cancer is a chronic condition, and once you've had it, you're on the list, because it can come back.

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 see decadence really as what you do, because I don't do much at all that is decadent in my life. But I still am decadent. It's a state of mind, I think.