Kate Bush Quotes

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.

There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work.

Every old sock meets an old shoe

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.

What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

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.

It's not my ambition to be a big star.

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.

I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.

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.

I love being with my friends, relaxing and talking.

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.

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.

Mozart didn't have Pro Tools, but he did a pretty good job.

I haven't actually seen a Lady Gaga tour, but I do think she's very good.

Is there so much hate for the ones we love?
Tell me we both matter don't we?

I am just a quiet reclusive person who has managed to hang around for a while.

Gene Wilder is so funny.

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.

When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three in the morning you can actually see bits of inspiration floating about and grab them.

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.

I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.

When your mother dies, you're not a little girl any more.

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.

I don't get out to parties often.

I think quotes are very dangerous things.

My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.

What am I singing?
A song of seeds
The food of love.
Eat the music.

As the people grow colder, I turn to my computer and spend my evenings with it like a friend.

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.

It's funny when you write a song - it's easy for me now - but there's almost a second stage where you take control of the song. You start writing it, and if you're not careful, it just finishes itself and it might not be what you wanted. It's very strange, it takes over itself. It has its own life.

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.

I feel like I have to do some promotion to let the people know that the records are out there; but I kind of like the idea that it's my work that does the talking rather than me.

You'll never know that you had all of me. You'll never know the poetry you've stirred in me.

Moving stranger,
Does it really matter,
As long as you're not afraid to feel?
Touch me, hold me.
How my open arms ache!
Try to fall for me.

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.

Just being alive
It can really hurt
These moments given
Are a gift from time.

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.

Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.

My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.

Sometimes when I look back on myself on those earlier records, there was so much effort going in, so much trying. With this, I was trying to make it much more laid back.

I didn't really feel that there were any filler tracks on 'The Red Shoes,' but if I were to do that album now, I wouldn't make it so long.

Some of the best pop music ever has come out of the States.

I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?

In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.

I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.

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.

School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.

All the time it's a changing
And all the dreamers are waking.

I love words, I think they're fascinating and incredibly wonderful things and part of the joy of my work is that I not only get to work with music but also with words. Sometimes it's a difficult process but a lot of the time it's really fun.

My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.

There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions.

Watching the painter painting
And all the time, the light is changing
And he keeps painting
That bit there, it was an accident
But he's so pleased
It's the best mistake, he could make
And it's my favourite piece
It's just great

--- excerpt from the song "An Architect's Dream" from the album Aerial

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.

Artists shouldn't be made famous. They have this huge aura of almost god-like quality about them, just because their craft makes a lot of money. And at the same time it is a forced importance ... It is man-made so the press can feed off it.

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?'

The original vocals had an awful lot of work put into them at the time, and I wasn't really sure that I could better them - I don't know if I have bettered them.

I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.

Thanks to everyone who's encouraged and supported my work over the years.

When I'm a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right.

I think each album does have a different energy, otherwise you'd be doing the same thing again and not experimenting anew ... Albums are such autobiographical material, not in the material but as an expression of what you're like at the time.

All we're ever looking for is another open door.

I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper ...

Bang goes another kanga on the bonnet of the van

The only person with you all your life is you. Your parents die. Things inside you die - illusions, gushes of personality. Only you can sort yourself out. Yourself may not be all you need, but it's all you've got.

I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.

The more I think about sex, the better it gets!

I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer ... People's general awareness is getting much better, even down to buying a pint of milk: the fact that the calves are actually killed so that the milk doesn't go to them but to us cannot really be right, and if you have seen a cow in a state of extreme distress because it cannot understand why its calf isn't by, it can make you think a lot.

I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?

We let it in, we give it out, and in the end what's it all about? It must be love.

I don't think a lot of people listen to their old stuff, do they? I spent a long time making it, so I don't really want to spend much time listening to it again.

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.

I don't know you,
And you don't know me.
It is this that brings us together.

When you'd buy vinyl, you'd have this lovely-sized object with a lovely picture, and you'd read the lyrics and usually there was something artistic that went with it.

I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.

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.

I love the whirling of the dervishes.
I love the beauty of rare innocence.
You don't need no crystal ball,
Don't fall for a magic wand.
We humans got it all, we perform the miracles.

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.'

After I've done the salesman bit, I like to be quiet and retreat, because that's whereI write from. I'm a sort of quiet little person.

I like to work with a combination of analog and Pro Tools. I love the sound of analog tape, but there's so many things you can do with Pro Tools that would be incredibly difficult and very time-consuming with analog.

I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.

You don't wanna hurt me, but you see how deep the bullet lies

Irish folk is probably the biggest influence musically that I've ever had. My mother's Irish. And when I was very young, both my brothers were very into traditional music, English and Irish. They were always playing music, so I was always brought up with it.

Maybe if my songs feel personal, that's very nice. I like that. I take that as a great compliment.

I have a little boy, and I wanted to spend a lot of time with him.

I just know that something good is going to happen. I don't know when - but just saying it could even make it happen.

I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.

Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.

My friends sometimes used to ignore me completely, and that would really upset me badly.

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.

When you reach for a star, only angels are there. And it's not very far, just a step on a stair.

Come up and be a kite,
On a diamond flight!

I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.

Music is like comedy in that you can enjoy a very - for want of abetter word - sophisticated classical piece as much as you enjoy something that's very simple pop.

I don't really listen to my old stuff, but on occasion, I would either hear a track on the radio or a friend might play me one, and there was generally a bit of an edgy sound to it, which was mainly due to the digital equipment that we were using, which was state of the art at the time - and I think everyone felt pressured to be working that way.

You don't want to hurt me,
But see how deep the bullet lies.

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.

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.