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.
BAT FOR LASHESI 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.
BAT FOR LASHESI’d love to win a Grammy! Not ambitious or anything. And just having a really lovely bunch of kids and a happy family life, would be good for me.
BAT FOR LASHESI like to get dark sometimes and then come back out into the light.
BAT FOR LASHESI’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 LASHESI’d tell everyone to come in naked in full body paint.
BAT FOR LASHESThey say for every high high there must be a low low low low low
BAT FOR LASHESMusic’s free and music’s for everyone to enjoy and express and interpret. It transcends countries and times and decades.
BAT FOR LASHESI did gardening and cooking and drawing and reading to try take the pressure off the music – just being eclectic and putting the fun back in and bringing more innocence in again is really important.
BAT FOR LASHESI find it really interesting that people are shocked by the raw, natural representation of a woman and a man’s body.
BAT FOR LASHESI guess it’s subverting our expectations in terms of how we’ve come to expect women to present themselves when they’re being naked. Also the woman’s and the man’s role is subverted in that image. You’d expect the man to be carrying the woman.
BAT FOR LASHESI’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 LASHESWe are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.
BAT FOR LASHESI think what I wanted to do was meet someone who knew more than me about songwriting structure and progressions and middle eights and things that more traditional writers write and I don’t usually employ.
BAT FOR LASHESDad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time – very inspiring and dramatic.
BAT FOR LASHESI always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a grand scale. I think I want everyone to feel more free, and so I feel really claustrophobic on behalf of lots of people.
BAT FOR LASHESIt’s very much to do with how I’m feeling … I love to be experimental and use eclectic mismatched things and put them together to see what third entity is created!
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