Quotes from Laura Marling

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

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

Lover please do not fall to your knees it's not like I believe in everlasting love

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 reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think.

I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.

I cannot love, I want to be aloneI will not love, I want to be alone

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

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

It's hard to accept yourself as someone you don't desire / As someone you don't want to be.

When a song wants to be written, it will be written.

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

It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.

I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.

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

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

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 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 know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.

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.