Top 40 Laura Marling Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

— Laura Marling

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

— Laura Marling

3. “Why fear death? Be scared of living.”

— Laura Marling

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

— Laura Marling

5. “I find it dull when my heart meets my mind.”

— Laura Marling

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

— Laura Marling

7. “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.”

— Laura Marling

8. “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.”

— Laura Marling

9. “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.”

— Laura Marling

10. “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.”

— Laura Marling

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

— Laura Marling

12. “Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn’t that be a life?”

— Laura Marling

13. “When a song wants to be written, it will be written.”

— Laura Marling

14. “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.”

— Laura Marling

15. “I speak because I can to anyone I trust enough to listen.”

— Laura Marling

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

— Laura Marling

17. “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.”

— Laura Marling

18. “Lover please do not fall to your knees it’s not like I believe in everlasting love.”

— Laura Marling

19. “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.”

— Laura Marling

20. “I am quite competitive. In stupid things like card games.”

— Laura Marling

21. “Now that I’m feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.”

— Laura Marling

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

— Laura Marling

23. “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.”

— Laura Marling

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

— Laura Marling

25. “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.”

— Laura Marling

26. “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.”

— Laura Marling

27. “I like living in the city, but I like being able to get out of it as and when I like.”

— Laura Marling

28. “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.”

— Laura Marling

29. “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.”

— Laura Marling

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

— Laura Marling

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

— Laura Marling

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

— Laura Marling

33. “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.”

— Laura Marling

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

— Laura Marling

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

— Laura Marling

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

— Laura Marling

37. “I’d like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.”

— Laura Marling

38. “I don’t need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.”

— Laura Marling

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

— Laura Marling

40. “I’m a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.”

— Laura Marling

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

— Laura Marling

42. “I’d prefer to be good, but I’m not always. I struggle.”

— Laura Marling