Laura Marling
Laura Marling
Laura Beatrice Marlingis an English folk singer-songwriter and musician from Eversley, Hampshire. Her debut album Alas, I Cannot Swim, her second album I Speak Because I Can, and her fourth album Once I Was An Eagle were each nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2008, 2010, and 2013, respectively. She won the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist at the 2011 Brit Awards, and was nominated for the same award at the 2012, 2014 and 2016 Brit...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth1 February 1990
art self poetry-and-music
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.
father done remember
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.
fall believe knees
Lover please do not fall to your knees it's not like I believe in everlasting love
confused knowing age
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.
decision important unhappiness
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.
thinking balance logic
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.
heart mind dull
I find it dull when my heart meets my mind
breeze ifs
But if i sit here and weep I'll be blown over by the slightest of breeze
giving-up waiting life-is
I can't give up that quick My life is a candle and a wick You can put it out, but you can't break it down In the end we are waiting to be lit
forever friends-forever
A friend is a friend forever And a good one will never leave, never
regret rivers house
There's a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim I'll live my life regretting that I never jumped in
past years roots
I thought ‘I wonder what will happen if I try and root myself somewhere?‘ Look back over the past eight years.
morning coffee ideas
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.
thinking people way
People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.