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Laura Marling Biography

Laura Beatrice Marling (born 1 February 1990) is a Grammy nominated, British 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 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, 2016, and 2018 Brit Awards. Her sixth record, Semper Femina, was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Folk Album category.

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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.

Honest, Intimate, Thinking, Thoughts

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

Feels, Like, Long, Make, Music, Needs

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

Able, Come, Experiences, Song, Write, Writing

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.

Blame, Control, Freak, Neurotic

I read a lot by female psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé, who wrote prominent biographies of Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud because she studied with all of them. She had this unbelievable insight into contemporary psychoanalysis. What is so interesting is that she wrote her life, and she knew that her life would be about these men, and it didn't stop her from leading an incredibly successful academic career. But her strange self-awareness that she was going to bookmark these men's lives is really interesting to me.

Academic, Careers, Men, Strange, Successful, Wrote

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.

Affected, Concur, Done, Father, Remember, Resonance

People don't appreciate music any more. They don't adore it. They don't buy vinyl and just love it. They love their laptops like their best friend, but they don't love a record for its sound quality and its artwork.

Friendship, Love, People, Quality, Record, Sound Quality

Rilke has a very bizarre relationship to women because his mother had an older child, a girl who died when she was a baby. So when Rilke was born she named him Sophie and dressed him as a girl until he was 7. And psychologically, the repercussions of that made him the genius that he is. By the time he was 35, he was continuously falling in love with older women, mother figures, spiritual mothers.

Baby, Dressed, Girl, Mother, Spiritual

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.

Art, Life, Poetry, Poetry And Music, Self, World

Women are presented with a very narrow aspect of the female narrative. And now we live in a culture and a time where it gets to us very quickly and very young. So how do you maintain in a child that sense of unique identity before they get thrown all that is projected on them?

Child, Children, Female, Identity, Unique, Young

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.

Age, Confused, Irrelevant, Knowing, Quite, Wisdom

I'm the first to admit that I'm still pretty young.

Admit, Firsts, Pretty, Stills, Young

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

Be Good, Good, Prefer, Struggle

I was an incredibly misanthrope. I couldn't relate to people my age, and I'm not sure why, as I wasn't particularly smart or interesting

Incredibly, Interesting, People, Smart

I am quite competitive. In stupid things like card games.

Card, Cards, Competitive, Games, Stupid

There's huge amounts of nonsense that goes with everything surrounding music and art. All the things you have to do promote yourself - there's huge amounts of nonsense.

Art, Everything, Huge, Nonsense, Promote

I thought ‘I wonder what will happen if I try and root myself somewhere?‘ Look back over the past eight years.

Back, Eight, Past, Root, Wonder, Years

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.

Book, Books, Culture, People

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.

Coffee, Crossword, Ideas, Loyal, Morning

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

Call, Optimistic, Realism, Song, Songs

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