Top 25 Laura Marling Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.

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

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’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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I’ve noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there’d be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them.

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

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.

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