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
responsibility choices feelings
Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.
song optimistic realism
My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.
country book night
I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night. I feel like it must be universal. Everybody must know that somewhere.
song writing sometimes
I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
firsts young stills
I'm the first to admit that I'm still pretty young,
emotion triggers situation
I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.
thinking forever goes-on
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.
song want written
When a song wants to be written, it will be written.
want arms conscious
I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.
song writing able
All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.
religious decision logic
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.
simple water down-and
My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
womanhood
Womanhood is something you dont consider until it hits you.
lonely reality thinking
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.