The nice thing about us lot is that what we do is of no consequence. We don't do things that are important; we spend our lives doing things which are not important. That's what's nice about us, we're not pompous.… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
You know the first objective is to get out of your hometown, second objective, get it together in the capital. The awful thing about left the school, is that you'd feel you'd be important. It would matter what you did. — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
There is a land that I can go to When I have time to rest. All the people I love are there And those… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
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. — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty. — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude. — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal. — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, 'the press.' — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
I get all dressed up with that Marianne Faithfull face, and the next thing I know, I'm blurting out things that I shouldn't, trying… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
It's always a good idea to get yourself a famous, rich, and groovy young man. That's one of the best-known methods of furthering your… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.' — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions. — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image