Kate Bush Quotes

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.

What made it special made it dangerous, so I bury it... and forget.

Quite often, lyrics get misunderstood - and I never mind that. I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to bethought provoking.

I didn't dare let my mind wander off.

Every old sock meets an old shoe

I'm always hunting and prowling. I'm sure Brian [Bath] was exaggerating!

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

Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own.

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

The thing with 50 Words of Snow is that it was literally back-to-back from Director's Cut [also released in 2011]. It was more or less that I got to make two albums in one hit. I was already in this space in my mind to be writing and making an album.

I saw Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, which I thought was a masterpiece. Not that long ago, I listened to Blackstar by David Bowie and thought that was a masterpiece. Those are two incredibly talented people who've left their mark with us.

You have a different audience. Your personal energy is different because some days you're energized, some nights you might be tired so that affects your memory and your emotion.

They were worried we wouldn't get any radio play at all[ for "A Deal with God" ]. That's why it was changed [to "Running Up That Hill"].

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

The world is continually changing. I think in some ways it's changing in a very positive way.

It's a real joy to be moved by something, but it doesn't happen often to me.

When I've heard a piece of music or seen a painting that moves me, it gives me something.

It wasn't that we were afraid of the Church or the Vatican. The record company thought people might find the title offensive. They asked me if I would change ["A Deal with God"].

I think what is great is that if anything that I do is interesting to somebody else, then I really don't think it matters at all what I had originally intended.

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.

Bright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial All the time it's a changing, like now.

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.

I'm quite a private person and I like my work to do the talking.

I knew I wanted it to be a piece of theatre rather than just a concert.

However, if I ever were in a position to choose who would play me, I think I'd choose Johnny Depp.

I suppose in some ways doing some of the songs in the show felt a bit like I was doing cover versions. I was covering myself. Not that they didn't feel like my songs, but the way I was approaching them was from a place so outside where they were written. The fact that these songs were in the context of a live show was a new thing.

I spend a lot of my time looking at blue, The colour of my room and my mood.

I don't think it's a very nice idea [making biopic] at all. I don't think my life is that interesting.

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

[For Before the Dawn] it was in the hands of a fantastic drummer and percussionist and who drove it into another moment in time. It's such a poignant song and it was transformed into entirely different beast.

I think as a mature artist, you're probably always trying to undo the compromises of one's self [in general]. It's not necessarily to do with youth.

They say that the Devil is a charming man. And just like you I bet he can dance.

I suppose my biggest concern would be if the planet is going to be in good enough shape for the next generation to have the privileges that we've had.

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

We have a female prime minister [Theresa May] here in the UK. I actually really like her and think she's wonderful. I think it's the best thing that's happened to us in a long time.

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.

I love comedy. I like to think that there's a sense of humor in some of my music - obviously not all of it.

Even just making albums - which was more within the structure that I've worked in for years - you have no idea how people will respond. You don't know if it'll be any good whatsoever. It can be terrifying.

I just try to put myself in the sense of being a character, sometimes male. I suppose I just like the idea of trying to be different people coming from all kinds of different angles. Most of it was just from my imagination.

I'd become very involved in the production, so the albums were taking longer. So it was never a deliberate decision not to do live shows. A few times, I've thought about doing them again, but it's just kind of never happened. I've just sort of gone the path of becoming a recording artist I guess.

My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.

Apart from the first set - which used high-level concert lighting - once you stepped into the two narrative pieces, we were working with lower-level theatrical lights. In most cases, people were really respectful of that.

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.

The whole positioning and atmosphere of the song ["King of the Mountain"] was to build up this thunderstorm that would take us all onstage off into a story where we were suddenly in the middle of the ocean.

Im the shyest megalomaniac youre ever likely to meet.

It's not easy putting creative projects together. In my case, it might take a long time and you try to do the best.

Bang goes another kanga on the bonnet of the van

To say that you like music is a bit like saying youlike the whole world.