“I’m happiest in that Jane Austen/Brontë sisters world,” she says. “It does sound silly but there was always this feeling of not really belonging to this era and that became even more heightened when I was a typically intense teenager. At school no one liked the music I was doing at all – it was all ‘yeah, folk music, whatever – not interested’. But then I suppose it is a bit unusual to be a very young girl and to learn basic guitar picking principles from Neil Young’s The Needle And The Damage Done .”
- Laura Marling, Irish Times Interview 2/12/10