Laura Marling Quotes - Page 3

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I thought ‘I wonder what will happen if I try and root myself somewhere?‘ Look back over the past eight years.

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

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

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