Laura Marling

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

“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.”

“I can’t do small talk really, and that’s fine. I've got old friends and family that love me, thank God. I’m grateful for what a city gives you access to, but I do feel that I’m only here until I figure out how to get out again.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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'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.”

“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'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.”

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

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

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

“When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.”

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

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

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

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