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Bat for Lashes
English
Musician
Born:
Oct 25
,
1979
Me
Music
People
Sometimes
Think
You
Related authors:
David Bowie
Elton John
Harry Styles
John Lennon
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Yungblud
I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
Bat for Lashes
Birthday
Parents
Year
Before
Every
Would
Wear
Tails
Had
Put
Days
Prosthetic
Parties
Fake
Five
Pipe
Curly
Moustache
Noses
Hold
Dad
Actually
To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.
Bat for Lashes
Life
Best
Great
You
Yourself
My Life
Before
Own
Live
Great Artist
Imitations
Our
Way
Possibly
About
Something
My Own
Rather
More
Feel
Know
Look
Know Yourself
How
Making
Came
Than
Artist
Psyche
Exploring
Unique
Beings
Pale
Things
Need
I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for dinner. When you travel a lot, you feel rootless and adrift - this is my sanctuary, where I can breathe out.
Bat for Lashes
You
Travel
People
Dinner
Nice
Live
East
Out
London
Adrift
Blankets
Feel
House
Lot
Get
Where
Which
Sanctuary
Breathe
Fill
Round
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
Music
Art
Me
Sometimes
First
Think
Visual
More
Take
First Thing
Doing
Been
Any
The First Thing
While
Turn
Really
Thing
All of the art that I love is about peeling back layers and delving into something that's in a subconscious or dream realm. People like Jan Svankmajer, or the artist Yoshimoto Nara, or David Lynch.
Bat for Lashes
Love
Art
Love Is
People
Subconscious
Peeling
Back
Dream
About
Something
Layers
David
David Lynch
Delving
Like
Artist
Realm
When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.
Bat for Lashes
Music
Time
You
Creative
Overwhelming
Bit
Musician
Outlet
Only
Because
Always
Doing
Up
Get
Just
Just Because
Mean
Really
Your
Creative Outlet
Switch
Challenging
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
Love
Nature
Me
Garden
World
Mind
Overwhelming
Meditation
Find
Pretty
Clear
Feel
Like
Doing
Lots
Yoga
Getting
Grounds
Keeps
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
World
Mediocrity
Add
Adding
Responsible
Worthwhile
Something
Rather
Feel
Stuff
Soup
Than
Just
Want
Loads
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
Thoughts
Generation
Brilliant
Clothes
Extraordinary
Dressed
Compromise
David
David Bowie
Songwriter
He
Bowie
Also
Without
Up
Hugely
Worked
Successful
Brian
Who
Captured
In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.
Bat for Lashes
Music
Women
Intelligence
Music Industry
Industry
Undervalued
When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.
Bat for Lashes
Family
Country
Side
Summers
Visited
Out
See
London
Go
Up
Just
Grew
Place
Which
Little
Dad
Pakistan
Near
I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.
Bat for Lashes
Teacher
You
Youth
School
Job
Kiss
Innocence
Nursery
Back
Insight
Give
Purity
School Teacher
Massive
Got
Surface
Exhausting
Lot
Scream
Loved
Then
Worked
Really
Groups
When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing. My teachers encouraged my art work. When I was 9 or 10, I began learning piano and started writing music.
Bat for Lashes
Work
Music
Art
Learning
Writing
Young
Drawing
Excelled
Piano
Writer
Always
Encouraged
Began
Art Work
Wanted
Stories
Teachers
Painter
Started
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
Communicate
Own
Pool
Everyday
My Own
Around
Person
Roll
Just
Want
Avant-Garde
Coolness
I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.
Bat for Lashes
Work
People
Free
Prison
Duty
Trapped
Other
Back
Liberated
Way
Through
Uncomfortable
Empathy
Self-Consciousness
Feel
Perhaps
Make
Doing
Want
Held
Who
Why
I'm not really frightened by experimenting - that's the main thing. I really like mixing very old beautiful pieces that are from thrift shops or that have some historical value with quite new futuristic things.
Bat for Lashes
Beautiful
Old
Value
Futuristic
Some
Thrift
Main
Main Thing
New
Like
Pieces
Mixing
Historical
Very
Frightened
Quite
Shops
Experimenting
Really
Thing
Things
I think Deborah Harry has a really sexy, cool and quite playful sex-kitten kind of style I really like.
Bat for Lashes
Style
Think
Harry
Kind
Sexy
Like
Quite
Really
Cool
Playful
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
Me
Girl
Sweet
Think
Collaborate
Wear
Some
Given
Inspired
Piece
Making
Been
Label
Quite
Lovely
Little
Might
Turn
Really
Little Piece
Things
I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, 'God, it'd be great to write a sort of subversive, alternative ballad,' like Lou Reed does so well with 'Perfect Day.' And I really loved 'Video Games' - at the time, it hadn't really got as big, but it's a classic song; you can't deny it.
Bat for Lashes
Video Games
God
Time
Day
Great
You
Song
Listening
Big
Diamond
Thinking
Elton
Elton John
Neil
Neil Diamond
John
Classic
Perfect
Write
Like
Well
Sort
Alternative
Does
Got
Ballad
Reed
Been
Lot
Lou Reed
Deny
Loved
Subversive
Video
Really
Games
'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
War
Me
Man
Woman
Women
Communication
Song
Communicate
Vision
Wait
Men
Husband
Men And Women
Group
Other
Back
Sides
Kind
About
Haunted
Between
Come
Sing
Cliffs
Opposite
Trying
Move
Barriers
Each
Her
Two
I quite like androgyny.
Bat for Lashes
Androgyny
Like
Quite
Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
Bat for Lashes
Time
Amazing
Dramatic
Inspiring
He
His
Very
Did
Which
Storyteller
Spare
Spare Time
Dad
Illustrator
I like it when people make an effort to wear things that you wouldn't normally put together - I like eccentrics.
Bat for Lashes
You
Together
People
Wear
Eccentric
Put
Like
Make
Normally
Effort
Things
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
Home
Try
Finished
Fur
Touring
New
Like
Know
Make
Am
Doing
York
Just
Gold
New York
Where
Really
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
Edge
Sense
Society
Back
Immediate
Outside
Instant
Instant Gratification
Accepted
Doing
Artists
Repressed
Fulfil
Function
Gratification
Expression
Things
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