I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification. And in a… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted. — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
Music's free and music's for everyone to enjoy and express and interpret. It transcends countries and times and decades. — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English. — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
I think Deborah Harry has a really sexy, cool and quite playful sex-kitten kind of style I really like. — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
We walked arm in arm but I didn't feel his touch a desire I'd first tried to hide. That tingling inside was gone and… — Bat For Lashes Copy Share Image
There's something in me that loves to inspire people: when I'm playing music, I imagine all this sparkly stardust going through everyone. I want… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
It's very much to do with how I'm feeling ... I love to be experimental and use eclectic mismatched things and put them together… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
David Bowie worked with Brian Eno and dressed up in extraordinary clothes, but he was also a brilliant songwriter who captured the thoughts of… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
There's a part of me that wishes I could go out in T-shirt and jeans, 'cause I really love Patti Smith, Cat Power, girls… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them. — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
I had Halloween parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
I think what I wanted to do was meet someone who knew more than me about songwriting structure and progressions and middle eights and… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
I always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a grand scale. I think I want everyone… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
