Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfullis an English singer, songwriter and actress. She achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her hit single "As Tears Go By" and became one of the lead female artists during the "British Invasion" in the United States...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth29 December 1946
war wings empires
I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.
frightened ill
I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.
attitude france given
France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.
hard knows trusted
I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.
mouths pops bigs
I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.
feds retiring fed-up
The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.
flower capricorns late
I'm a Capricorn, and they flower late.
growing-up lessons wake-up
Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I've had lots of shocks because it's as though I don't learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me.
music regret thinking
I do sometimes think I could have done without the drugs actually; that was a waste of time, and a huge risk. But then again, there's nothing I can change, so in a way regret is pointless.
apologizing wells havens
Never apologize, never explain - didn't we always say that? Well, I haven't and I don't.
attitude myth turns
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.
delay sound touring
The equipment you've got really dictates what you're going to do. When I started touring, there were no monitors, so I had to take the sound from the hall, and of course it was on a delay, so I would sing, and then I would hear it back, but later. It was very weird.
song feelings way
The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
doors perception phrases
The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.