Folk Singer Laura Marling Plays a Song Off Her New Album

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: I think you’re taking a master’s in psychoanalysis right now. So, is it partly because of, I don’t know, the feeling of not being an entertainer, you know what I mean, the sort of where you find yourself in that sort of interface between you and the rest of the world, or a little bit about the diplomacy that you were just talking about? What are you — why are you doing this?

LAURA MARLING, SINGER/SONGWRITER: Well, it’s a mix of all of those things. I think what drew me to psychoanalysis in the first place, other than being having been a patient of it, was the — you know, the language with which to describe the persona — a persona and a private experience of yourself, the interior, beyond the epidermal level, of what you are, and then what you present to the world is the meeting point of all kinds of difficulties and joys, and, you know, understanding the true motivations under things. And how — just listening to the person who was speaking before me about Trump voters identifying as Trump voters, and how those kind of identities become entrenched and the motivations behind them become interdependently complex, and that’s all psychoanalysis to me. So, that’s why I liked it.

AMANPOUR: Well, it’s great. Listen, Laura Marling, it’s been great to meet you. We’re going to say good night and goodbye. And we would love for you to play us out. “Strange Girl,” I think I would like you to play.

MARLING: Yes, sure.

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