- Born
- Birth nameNatasha Khan
- Height5′ 8½″ (1.74 m)
- Bat for Lashes was born on October 25, 1979 in the UK. She is a composer and actress, known for How I Live Now (2013), The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) and Madly (2016).
- Is half English (on her mum's side), and half Pashtun Pakistani (on her dad's side). She grew up primarily in a rural suburb in England.
- While writing and recording songs for her debut album, Natasha Khan worked as a nursery school teacher.
- Sister of actress Sasha Agha.
- Daughter of squash player Rehmat Khan and Step daughter of actress Salma Agha.
- There's something in me that loves to inspire people: when I'm playing music, I imagine all this sparkly stardust going through everyone. I want to make people come alive.
- We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.
- I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.
- 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 they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.
- 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.
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