I'm having a great life, and I want to go on having one.

I never saw myself as beautiful. I can look back and see it now, but then? Never.

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.

I've done everything I want to do and gone everywhere I want to go.

I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, "the press."

I have always been attracted to the bleaker aspects of life. I love drama.

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.