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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
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Marianne Faithfull
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 29
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Hampstead Village
Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull
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My first job was singing at the Hammersmith Odeon. It was years ago, so I can't remember who I was performing with. I was a sort of anti-climax after two hours of heavy rock-'n'-roll. Seventeen years old in a white dress. It was the first time that I got applause. Wonderful, that noise in my ears.
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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.
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The food that's never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, which is delicious. Paris isn't a porridge place, but I can buy it in London when I'm there and bring it back with me.
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All I have to do is what's right for me.
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I know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth.
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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 to get attention when, really, I've got everybody's attention already.
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I thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what got me was the sound, and hearing it. Hearing everything so loud, I loved that back in the studio. I loved that from the very beginning.
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I love the Stones, but I've gone to a lot of gigs.
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The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.
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When you lose your reputation at 19, you lose everything.
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The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.
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I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.
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It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.
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There is a land that I can go to When I have time to rest. All the people I love are there And those who love me best.
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I've got a lot of little compulsive problems, and I've thought about it a lot. And one of the things I ask myself is, 'What are the things I can do that won't hurt me and will help me?' The first answer is work.
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I was anorexic in the 60s and 70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.
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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.
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I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.
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I shoot my big mouth off it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.
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Never apologize, never explain - didn't we always say that? Well, I haven't and I don't.
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