Laura Marling Quotes

I've always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.

You know, Italian-Hungarian - no matter how linear and cool I look on the outside, I have all that energy trying to find its way through life.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them... They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.

Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.

I became conflicted in my late teens.

My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.

My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.

I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting.

Maybe my songs are my partner. How 'bout that? Yeah, the biggest relationship I have is with my songs.

Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.

My songwriting... it's almost like a kind of self-therapy.

I have the words 'love' and 'life' on my knuckles, and I would half like those removed.

Every one of us at some point in our lives has had the struggle with identity.

As we wrestle with questions of identity, we imitate those actions we think best fill an ambiguity we have within ourselves. And that goes for everyone; no one is free from this condition.

It feels weird to say there's more to me than that, like I'm being overdramatic, and a tear rolls down my cheek. But, no - I do like I feel like there's more to me than just baseball.

I hit this point - I guess you'd say an end of a chapter - where I felt like I kind of did everything. I wasn't interested in music. It was a really strange feeling, and needless to say, it freaked me out a little bit. I really started to go inward and say, 'Hey, what is this about?'

I think we all have identity crises throughout our lives.

I have existential worries inside of me, but I don't always know how to express them all the time.

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

I've been writing songs since I was a teenager, so one kind of song I've written a lot is about, I don't know, teen angst feelings - feeling unsure of yourself and immature.

I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about.

I'm a writer in the world. I translate the confusion that I might feel, the dread that I know I feel, moving towards some other place, moving away from puny language, from all that dread into some other kind of language.

As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I shuttle between worrying whether I matter at all and whether anything else matters but me.

Rebellion flamed up in her soul as the dark hours passed by – not because she had no future but because she had no past.