Marianne Faithfull Quotes

One of my favorite paintings I've done happened after I broke up with a boyfriend.

My first mixtape especially - that came from a heartbreak.

I think that you never fall out of love with somebody, you just let go and move on.

In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.

If you break up with your partner, go straight to the studio. You're going to make great music.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

I had a romantic, 'Aren't I a good girl?' take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid.

It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!

I think anything that's creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that I'm going through in my life. If you're going through heartbreak, and you can write a song, it's a wonderful win-win, because it takes your mind off the heartbreak, and you get to vent.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

I get things out of my system through my songs, but, because they can be about so many different things, it takes me a while to get through them emotionally.

Creating something beautiful out of pain helps ease the pain. So, that's kind of how I got to songwriting - quite honestly out of desperation.

When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.

I just write about what makes me sad, and then when I write, I hear myself. It's like therapy, where I write something sad and then I make it happier or hopeful.

I always write music if I'm feeling a bit rubbish and I don't know how to get over or through something.

I think that the song 'Movin' On' can be a personal song. We've all been in relationships where we weren't necessarily happy.

I feel like music is sort of therapy for myself.

So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time. As far as I'm concerned you're just another picture to burn.

I'd do a song in the studio and it would explain everything I'm going through so perfectly that when I went home and I felt down I could listen to that to make me feel better. It's a documentation of my life. I think it's just important to put it out there.

Losing love is like a window in your heart.

Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret.

I do my best to write my way through it. It helps the laughing, reflective part come quicker.