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Bat for Lashes Quotes

An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it’s all of a piece.

– Bat for Lashes

I’ve hidden behind my hair more than clothes. Sometimes having long hair with a fringe is very useful when you don’t want to look at people. I used to have very short hair, but long hair is my thing – a black nocturnal shield.

– Bat for Lashes

I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes for no reason. It’s healthy, I think.

– Bat for Lashes

I quite like androgyny.

– Bat for Lashes

The first album I started out, I just did everything completely alone. I think it has to do with confidence. The more confidence you develop in your own sound, the more you can open up and alchemize that with other people, just set it free, and not feel challenged by that.

– Bat for Lashes

I don’t think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. Sometimes when I’ve been doing music for a while, I can’t really take any more in.

– Bat for Lashes

I don’t like to be too submissive in the way I dress. I like quite boyish things, so I hardly ever wear high heels.

– 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 to make people come alive.

– 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 who look so casual; that appeals to me ’cause I guess it’s the opposite from what I do. But I can never let myself just do that – I always have to try and dress up and create something.

– Bat for Lashes

I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don’t want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.

– Bat for Lashes

‘The Haunted Man’ is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it’s a woman’s wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they’re kind of misfiring.

– Bat for Lashes

There’s this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things to wear, and we might collaborate on making a little piece. They’re really lovely, and I think they’ve been quite inspired by me in turn.

– Bat for Lashes

I want to add something worthwhile rather than just chucking loads of stuff into the world. I don’t want to feel responsible for adding to the soup of mediocrity.

– 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 a generation. He was hugely successful, without compromise.

– Bat for Lashes

When I finished touring ‘Fur and Gold,’ I was just like, ‘What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?’ I didn’t really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.

– Bat for Lashes

Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It’s like being with an old boyfriend every single night watching the same things on TV. There is a world out there going on that I’m missing.

– Bat for Lashes

My dad was a Muslim and would pray five times a day. I would pray with him as much as I could, in the morning before school. Sometimes he would tell us moralistic tales about genies, magic carpets and wondrous lands. My mother is not religious – she’s just English.

– Bat for Lashes

The record company doesn’t know what to do with me, because I’m not a Lily Allen, but I’m not really an indie artist, either. All the best artists have been in the middle.

– Bat for Lashes

I find the world pretty overwhelming, so I’m getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And I love my garden, and I love nature, and I feel like that grounds me and keeps my mind clear.

– Bat for Lashes

I like it when people make an effort to wear things that you wouldn’t normally put together – I like eccentrics.

– Bat for Lashes

I love dressing up.

– 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

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