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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

Topics: Am Doing Finished Fur Gold Home Just Know Like Make New New York Really Touring Try Where York

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I usually speak with all my drummers so that I write my songs with them in mind, and we'll have bass sounds, choir sounds, and then you can multi-task with all these orchestral sounds. Through the magic medium of technology, I can play all kinds of sounds - double bass and stuff.

~Bat For Lashes

Topics: Bass Choir Double Drummers Kinds Magic Medium Mind Orchestral Play Songs Sounds Speak Stuff Technology Them Then Through Write You I Can I Write

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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.

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Topics: About Art Artist Back David David Lynch Delving Dream Layers Like Love Love Is People Realm Something Subconscious I Love

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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.

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Topics: About Desire Dissertation Freud Going Gratification Instant Instant Gratification Learn Learning Process Stop Toilet Want Whenever Which Writing Wrote You

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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.

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Topics: Accepted Artists Back Doing Edge Expression Fulfil Function Gratification Immediate Instant Instant Gratification Outside Repressed Sense Society Things

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Musician

Born: October 25th, 1979

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