I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
I've hidden behind my hair more than clothes. Sometimes having long hair with a fringe is very useful when you don't want… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
The first album I started out, I just did everything completely alone. I think it has to do with confidence. The more… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit.… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
I get invited to premieres, and I've been to a few fashion shows and stuff, but I always get really bored. I… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
I think music naturally wants to be played with more than one person. There's a surprise element, and you don't know what… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't otherwise have. So I'm very… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, 'God, it'd be great to… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
I like it when people make an effort to wear things that you wouldn't normally put together - I like eccentrics. — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
I usually speak with all my drummers so that I write my songs with them in mind, and we'll have bass sounds,… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot… — 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
