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My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
Kate Bush -
I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.
Kate Bush
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
Kate Bush -
I think that there's always room for humour in music. It's something that always takes itself so seriously, which I think is a bit of a shame.
Kate Bush -
The great thing about vinyl is that if you wanted to get a decent-sounding cut, you could really only have 20 minutes max on each side.
Kate Bush -
It's not my ambition to be a big star.
Kate Bush -
There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
Kate Bush -
I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.
Kate Bush
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I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.
Kate Bush -
I don't get out to parties often.
Kate Bush -
It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.
Kate Bush -
But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.
Kate Bush -
I am just a quiet reclusive person who has managed to hang around for a while.
Kate Bush -
What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.
Kate Bush
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For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.
Kate Bush -
I suppose the worst case scenario is that people will get to the point where they can't actually afford to make what they want to make creatively. The industry is collapsing.
Kate Bush -
Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'Ulysses.' When I asked for permission to use the text, I was refused, which was disappointing.
Kate Bush -
I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.
Kate Bush -
As we become this one global culture, in some ways it's things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are.
Kate Bush -
Gene Wilder is so funny.
Kate Bush
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If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? Everything just seems to take so much time. I don't know why. Time... evaporates.
Kate Bush -
My friends sometimes used to ignore me completely, and that would really upset me badly.
Kate Bush -
When your mother dies, you're not a little girl any more.
Kate Bush -
In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.
Kate Bush