I'm never, never sure which way to go. I'm full of unsureness. That's been a habit for years. I never really want to commit.

I was told that I had very likely been clinically depressed for a long, long time, probably since I was 15, or even 14. It explained, to me at least, a lot of my behaviour over the years.

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

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.

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.

All I have to do is what's right for me.