Kate Bush Quotes
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Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.
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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.
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I love being with my friends, relaxing and talking.
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I have a little boy, and I wanted to spend a lot of time with him.
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I definitely don't think of myself as being an influence.
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There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.
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Obviously I try to make the best music that I can, but after about two years of making an album, you start to worry: 'Is it going to come out all right? Is it all going to sound churned out?'
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For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am.
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It's not important to me that people understand me.
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Thanks to everyone who's encouraged and supported my work over the years.
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In a popular medium, you're going to get loads of stuff that is trite, but there'll also be some really special moments.
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I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.
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People weren't even aware that I wrote my own songs. The media just promoted me as a female body. It's like I've had to prove that I'm an artist.
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I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of how to put things together.
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The more I got into presenting things to the world, the further it was taking me away from what I was, which was someone who just used to sit quietly at a piano and sing and play. It became very important to me not to lose sight of that.
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I was aware of a lot of my friends being into things I wasn't into. Like sarcasm. It had never been a part of my family - they still don't use sarcasm.
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Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.
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I have to say I find it totally astounding that my albums do as well as they do. It's quite extraordinary, and it's actually very touching for me for the albums to be received with such warmth.
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I'm a very strong person, and I think that's why, actually, I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a nervous breakdown' or 'She's not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature.'
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The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.
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The music industry is in such poor shape; it's in a really bad way, and a lot of people in the industry are very depressed.
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There was a story that some EMI execs had come down to see you and you'd said something like: 'Here's what I've been working on,' and then produced some cakes from your oven. True? 'No! I don't know where that came from. I thought that was quite funny actually. It presents me as this homely creature, which is all right, isn't it?'
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David Bowie had everything. He was intelligent, imaginative, brave, charismatic, cool, sexy and truly inspirational both visually and musically. He created such staggeringly brilliant work, yes, but so much of it and it was so good. There are great people who make great work but who else has left a mark like his? No one like him.
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I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.