Kate Bush Quotes

I wasnt an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.

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 inspiration floating about and grab them.

I think comedy and music are both things that we need as human beings. I think that both art forms can touch people.

I think we're all a party to this information all the time. It's every day, in a way we probably weren't a few years ago. We're more informed, which is a good thing because war is always there somewhere on the planet.

I've learned you can't take any steps to protect any art. It is so vulnerable.

It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding.

Comedy is a very big part of the English culture, the sense of humor; it's a very dominant trait.

I was so nervous every night that I had to really focus and keep myself in that moment so that I would not forget the words. I was really present for every song.

I split it up into working on the two narrative pieces that can tell a story. The scariest thing was whether I'd be any good performing live again. It was such a long time since I'd done any live work. It's so different for me than recording. Every night my audiences were what I would dream of. You could just feel their support.

The great thing about art on any level is that it can speak to all people if it's achieved properly.

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

That doesn't matter. If it speaks to them and they get something positive from it, it's great.

It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible thing.

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.

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

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

Disappearing act? That's a magic trick, isn't it? I like magic tricks!