Quotes
My answer to everything was to get as stoned as possible and live on the street, which made me sort of unattractive.
Faithfull said
The creation of Marianne Faithfull is her greatest work of art.
As Marianne's biographer David Dalton saidIt's hard work but we do love each other
Marianne said about building a connection with her sonI don't want anyone feeling sorry for me
The star saidIt was my feminine self that was hurt by that, and that's what angered me about it, that Mick and Keith came out of it more glamorous and wonderful and sort of outlawed
She addedI do believe in miracles.”
She admitted
I sing my shadow. I’m singing the dark side of myself.”
She described the material as “dark, dark, dark”, and commentedI really have been as honest as I possibly could,
she saidI'm all right but I have had a bit of an adventure - my relationship broke up
She said at the timeEver since my days at the convent my secret heroes had been decadents, aesthetes, doomed Romantics, mad Bohemians and opium-eaters,
she wrote in her 1994 book Faithfull: An Autobiography
You know, I didn’t go to Oxford,
she told The Guardian in 2021I watched how he wrote and I learned a lot, and I will always be grateful
she told The Guardian in 2021It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of the singer, songwriter and actress Marianne Faithfull,
her spokesperson said
They came up and said to the person I was with, 'Can she sing?'
Faithfull said to CBS Sunday Morning during a 2009 interviewMy heartfelt condolences to Marianne’s family! I’m so sad and will miss her!! Love, Keith.”
And fellow Rolling Stone Keith Richards — who also had a fling with her — posted a message with a picture of him and Marianne
When I split with Mick and left with my son Nicholas, ... I took a beautiful Persian carpet and some Ozzie Clark dresses, and all my Deliss silk clothes
she wrote in her autobiography
He thought it would be good for the band
Richards then urged her to sleep with his bandmate, JaggerWonderful, ... but it was just one night so it's completely idealised.
Rebelling against her strict Catholic convent school upbringing, she had a one-night stand with Richards ... she remembered,Look, they want to search me, Mick
Asked to accompany the officers on an inspection of the upstairs rooms, she turned on the stairs, let her fur wrap fall, and called outI am so saddened to hear of the death of Marianne Faithfull. She was so much part of my life for so long. She was a wonderful friend, a beautiful singer and a great actress. She will always be remembered."
He penned