“My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or Mick Jagger is a very, very destructive role for a woman trying to be herself. In fact, it can't be done.”

“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.”

“Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.”

“I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.”

“My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or Mick Jagger is a very, very destructive role for a woman trying to be herself. In fact, it can't be done.”

“I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it's not lived drawing on a full level. I'm relaxed, cool, and enjoying it.”

“France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.”

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

“I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.”

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