“ When you dress up, it allows you to confront elements in your personality that are perhaps too painful to face in the real world. I guess that’s exactly what I was doing. I wasn’t coping very well. Being Pearl- because she’s so fucked up and destructive- it was okay to be a mess when I was her.
Natasha Kahn, of Bat for Lashes, on her alter-ego, Pearl. Nylon magazine, April 2009
