Laura Marling

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

— Laura Marling

You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.

— Laura Marling

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

— Laura Marling

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

— Laura Marling

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

— Laura Marling

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

— Laura Marling

I find it dull when my heart meets my mind

— Laura Marling

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

— Laura Marling

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

— 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

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

— 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…

— Laura Marling

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

— Laura Marling

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

— Laura Marling

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…

— Laura Marling

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

— Laura Marling

I remember my father playing me Same Situation when I was a nipper, and saying how nobody since has done melodies as…

— Laura Marling

I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or…

— 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…

— Laura Marling

I don't have much to complain about in life, because I've lived a very privileged existence and continue to. I just think,…

— Laura Marling

I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have…

— Laura Marling

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

— Laura Marling

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…

— 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…

— Laura Marling

I sound awful saying it but I think it can be like that. I see a lot of people in unstimulating relationships.…

— Laura Marling

I read a lot by female psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé, who wrote prominent biographies of Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud because she studied with…

— 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…

— Laura Marling

I've got my laptop, but it troubles me in many ways. I don't have Twitter or Facebook or anything like that. It…

— Laura Marling

I would never sit and write a song in front of anyone, because you're so vulnerable. I don't know at what point…

— Laura Marling

I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the…

— Laura Marling

Rilke has a very bizarre relationship to women because his mother had an older child, a girl who died when she was…

— Laura Marling

In my experience, the psychological aspect of femininity tends to be more receptive and apathetic and delicate. I think that because the…

— Laura Marling

Why fear death? Be scared of living.

— Laura Marling

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

— Laura Marling

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

— Laura Marling

“I cannot love, I want to be alone I will not love, I want to be alone”

— Laura Marling

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

— Laura Marling

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

— Laura Marling

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

— Laura Marling

I can't give up that quick My life is a candle and a wick You can put it out, but you can't…

— Laura Marling