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.

- Laura Marling

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

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

- Laura Marling

I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.

- Laura Marling

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

- Laura Marling

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

- Laura Marling

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

- Laura Marling

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.

- Laura Marling

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

- Laura Marling

I just think of everything I do and how happy it will make me to do it. I don't like having my photograph taken, for instance, so I don't do that often.

- Laura Marling

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

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.

- Laura Marling

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

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

- Laura Marling

I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.

- Laura Marling

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

- Laura Marling

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

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

- Laura Marling

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.

- Laura Marling

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