Bat for lashes

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...

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...

The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.

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

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

I quite like androgyny.

I love dressing up.

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...

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

Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.