Laura Marling Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I remember my father playing me Same Situation when I was a nipper, and saying how nobody since has done melodies as well as Joni Mitchell. I concur. The thing that most affected me was just her resonance, and that is something she must have been born with.

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

I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.

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

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

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'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.

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

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

I sound awful saying it but I think it can be like that. I see a lot of people in unstimulating relationships. And not just boyfriend-girlfriend relationships. They find themselves in stagnant friendships. If people were a little less scared [of ending things] they'd get more out of life ... You meet the right person at the right time and they fulfil a certain something in your life. You fulfil something in theirs. But there's a time limit to that. Unless you choose to be bloody good company for the rest of your life, do you know what I mean?

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

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.

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'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.

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

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 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 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.

These are just ghosts that broke my heart before I met you.

People want to spend time together and I just couldn't pretend that I wanted to do that. But now I do get it. [..] Though I still don't do that.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I think everybody who relates to music is kind of isolated. It's lonely. Everyone who uses the creative side of their brain is that much removed from reality. They are looking for answers wherever they can find them.

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

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.

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

I tend to be drawn to people who are similar. Very independent. And the ones who aren't, it doesn't work. It doesn't last. I'm drawn to quiet people – certainly I am now.

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

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

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