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

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

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

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 went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London.

The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.

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