Top 40 Quotes by Laura Marling

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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