Kate Bush Quotes

My studio is a fantastic combination of old and new, and that's how I've always liked to work.

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.

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

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

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.

Im the shyest megalomaniac youre ever likely to meet.

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

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

Clowns are always creepy!

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

["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.

I'm not vanishing into thin air.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Being nervous actually kept me very tense.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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"].

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"].

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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

Chips of plutonium are twinkling in every lung.

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.

It was obvious that computers were going to become more a part of our lives, and they will continue to unless something dramatic happens to change that.

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.