Laura Marling Quotes

If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself...throug h songwriting or other mediums...I get a bit jittery.

A friend is a friend forever And a good one will never leave, never

I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.

Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn't that be a life?

I was an incredibly misanthrope. I couldn't relate to people my age, and I'm not sure why, as I wasn't particularly smart or interesting

I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.

Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.

No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do and I do want to continue selling records. And I would, eventually, quite like some money.

I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.

It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.

It’s hard to accept yourself as someone you don’t desire / As someone you don’t want to be.

I do so hate to be forced to be anything than other than what I am.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think.

I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.

I thought ‘I wonder what will happen if I try and root myself somewhere?‘ Look back over the past eight years.

Living in L.A., I was completely lost - and I enjoyed it.

I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.

I speak because I can to anyone I trust enough to listen.

The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.

I am quite competitive. In stupid things like card games.

I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.

Take me somewhere I can grow Give me something let me go Tell me something I don't know

I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.

People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.

I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.

I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.

All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.

Why fear death? Be scared of living.

I think I'll feel out of place wherever I go on earth, forever. But that's fine. I have to make my peace with that.

I made an important decision, which was to pursue happiness. Rather than accept unhappiness. That's why I'm here, and it's great. I'm in a very good place in my life.

I can't give up that quick My life is a candle and a wick You can put it out, but you can't break it down In the end we are waiting to be lit

I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.

There's huge amounts of nonsense that goes with everything surrounding music and art. All the things you have to do promote yourself - there's huge amounts of nonsense.

Lover please do not fall to your knees it's not like I believe in everlasting love

But if i sit here and weep I'll be blown over by the slightest of breeze

I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.

There's a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim I'll live my life regretting that I never jumped in

I find it dull when my heart meets my mind

My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.

Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.

I'm the first to admit that I'm still pretty young.

My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.

When a song wants to be written, it will be written.