Kate Bush Quotes
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I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
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I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.
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I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.
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I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.
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I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.
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I'm the shyest megalomaniac you're ever likely to meet.
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It's always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun.
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I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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Since I was 17, I had been just making records and promoting them.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?
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School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.
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I think it's important that things are flawed.
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When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.
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I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.
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I think quotes are very dangerous things.
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That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.