I write Quotes by Bat for Lashes

Music's free and music's for everyone to enjoy and express and interpret. It transcends countries and times and decades.

— Bat for Lashes

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

I think Deborah Harry has a really sexy, cool and quite playful sex-kitten kind of style I really like.

— Bat for Lashes

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

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

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

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

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

When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.

— Bat for Lashes

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

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

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