Kate Bush Quotes

Everyone of us has a heaven inside.

In some ways, when you re-envision a song like that ["Never Be Mine"], there's a completely different energy to it each night.

Using telephones, they would be so intrusive and would really disrupt the show.

You hope that the ideas will come together. You just don't know. That's part of what I suppose is part of being brave and putting creative work out there.

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.

My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff. He was really a hugely encouraging force to me when I was little.

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.

Being nervous actually kept me very tense.

[Theresa May] is very sensible and I think that's a good thing at this point in time.

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 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 have intentions as a writer, but people - when they're listening to a track - will take from it what they interpret.

["A Deal with God"] was the first single off Hounds of Love. I'd put a lot of work into putting that album together and I wanted it to have every chance.

For "Running Up That Hill" we had worked with a drum machine [in 1985]; the basic rhythms of "Running Up That Hill" happened because the whole track was built on a drum machine.

The more I think about sex, the better it gets. Here we have a purpose in life, good for the blood circulation, good for releasing the tension.

I think quotes are very dangerous things.

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

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.

Chips of plutonium are twinkling in every lung.

If ever there's been somebody to hold as an icon of sheer determination and willpower, it's that guy [Stephen Hawking ], let alone any of the things he's done scientifically. I'm sure that's his driving force, but he's a miracle and an aspiration.

Its so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.

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

We let the weirdness in.

I'm not vanishing into thin air.

We deliberately chose a small theatre so that the show was still intimate and the audience would become a part of the show.

[Theresa May] is a very intelligent woman but I don't see much to fear.

Don't ever think that you can't change the past.

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

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.

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.

Nobody really knows, do they? They told Stephen Hawking he only had a year left to live and how many years ago was that? You can't know it all.

Don't fall for a magic wand, we humans got it all, we perform the miracles.

As an artist, you're never happy with anything you do. It's part of the process.

50 Words of Snow just didn't seem to have the complications that quite a lot of albums have. It felt to me like it had this very good flow of energy.

You have to try and embrace it all and everyone who represents that change because it is happening.

Sometimes people mishear my lyrics and think a song's about something it isn't.

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

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

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

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.

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 think in some parts of our English history we've had huge amounts of almost too much great comedy. You kind of wonder how so much great work could come out of one country.

When I was singing "King of the Mountain," it was a pivotal point in the show. That's the song that took us from this concert setting of individual songs into the theatrical narrative piece.

I will say it is great to have a woman in charge of the country.

I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.

Normally I don't compromise at all but it felt important to give that song the chance to be heard.

With some of the songs, we brought the pitch down to alto.I'm older, so naturally my voice is lower now.

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. Y'know, 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'.