I’m a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent. – Laura Marling
My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again. – Laura Marling
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. – Laura Marling
When I’m singing I feel like I’m talking to someone. I’m in conversation when I perform – either with myself or with whomever is listening. – Laura Marling
It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I’d move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now – it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I’m reminded how important people are to me. – Laura Marling
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. – Laura Marling
I’m a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers. – Laura Marling
I’ve been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night. – Laura Marling
People don’t appreciate music any more. They don’t adore it. They don’t buy vinyl and just love it. They love their laptops like their best friend, but they don’t love a record for its sound quality and its artwork. – Laura Marling
I feel sometimes that I’m in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs. – Laura Marling
It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there’s no point trying to be something you’re not. – Laura Marling
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. – Laura Marling
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. – Laura Marling
I just think of everything I do and how happy it will make me to do it. I don’t like having my photograph taken, for instance, so I don’t do that often. – Laura Marling
I need some isolation, it’s necessary to me, that’s just who I am. I need to be left alone. – Laura Marling
I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that. – Laura Marling
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. – Laura Marling
I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same. – Laura Marling
Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity. – Laura Marling
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. – Laura Marling
I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don’t believe in romanticism and make-believe. – Laura Marling
