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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
#Artist
#Best
#Company
#Know
#Me
'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
#Communication
#Men
#Vision
#War
#Women
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
#Feel
#Mediocrity
#Soup
#Want
#World
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
#Me
#Mind
#Nature
#World
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
#Doing
#Just Because
#Mean
#Music
#Time
I think music naturally wants to be played with more than one person. There's a surprise element, and you don't know what it will be, and it's up to that other person's energy to help create this third thing.
- Bat for Lashes
#Energy
#Help
#Music
#Person
#Surprise
I got really good input up until the age of 11, which is perfect. That's when adolescence starts, when I would have really wanted to rebel. Up until that point, though, it didn't feel like doctrine, and it gave me a great moral structure.
- Bat for Lashes
#Adolescence
#Age
#Good
#Great
#Me
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
#Empathy
#Feel
#Life
#Reason
#Sometimes
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
#Dinner
#Feel
#Live
#Nice
#People
#Travel
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
#Boyish
#Dress
#High Heels
#High
#Way
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
#Dress
#Love
#Myself
#Power
#T-Shirt
I quite like androgyny.
- Bat for Lashes
#Androgyny
#Like
#Quite
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
#Black
#Hair
#Long Hair
#Long
#Look
I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits - I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'
- Bat for Lashes
#Did
#Me
#People
#Shoot
#Time
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
#Art
#Music
#Space
#Universe
#Words
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
#Art
#Drawing
#Learning
#Music
#Teachers
#Work
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
#Dad
#Days
#Fake
#Parents
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