Quotes by Bat for Lashes

The Haunted Man is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song its a womans 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 theyre kind of misfiring.

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 its all of a piece.

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 theyre so unrepressed; theyd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldnt be manipulated by the medias expectations of our bodies. Id recommend every woman to read Women Who Run with the Wolves - its about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.

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.

I had Halloween 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.

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 dads side.