Laura Marling Quotes

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

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 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.

Why fear death? Be scared of living.

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

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 read a lot by female psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé, who wrote prominent biographies of Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud because she studied with all of them. She had this unbelievable insight into contemporary psychoanalysis. What is so interesting is that she wrote her life, and she knew that her life would be about these men, and it didn't stop her from leading an incredibly successful academic career. But her strange self-awareness that she was going to bookmark these men's lives is really interesting to me.

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

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

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 find it dull when my heart meets my mind

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.