Kate Bush Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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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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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I have a little boy, and I wanted to spend a lot of time with him.
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When your mother dies, you're not a little girl any more.
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The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.
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When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular.
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I definitely don't think of myself as being an influence.
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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 am just trying to be a good, protective mother. I want to give Bertie as normal a childhood as possible while preserving his privacy.
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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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It's not important to me that people understand me.
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What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.
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In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.
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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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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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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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Thanks to everyone who's encouraged and supported my work over the years.
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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.
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As an artist, you’re never happy with anything you do. It’s part of the process. You’re never really happy. I’m certainly not. That’s a good thing. It means you’re always striving to do better. You hope the next piece will be better.
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Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.
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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.