Kate Bush
Kate Bush

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

Kate Bush
Kate Bush

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.

Kate Bush
Kate Bush

I think quotes are very dangerous things.

Kate Bush
Kate Bush

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.

Kate Bush
Kate Bush

I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.

Kate Bush
Kate Bush

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

Kate Bush
Kate Bush

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.

Kate Bush
Kate Bush

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.

Kate Bush
Kate Bush

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.'

Kate Bush
Kate Bush

Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.

Kate Bush
Kate Bush

Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.

Kate Bush
Kate Bush

It's not important to me that people understand me.

Kate Bush
Kate Bush

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.

Kate Bush
Kate Bush

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.

Kate Bush
Kate Bush

I'm the shyest megalomaniac you're ever likely to meet.

Kate Bush
Kate Bush

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.

Kate Bush
Kate Bush

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

Kate Bush
Kate Bush

I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.

Kate Bush
Kate Bush

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

Kate Bush
Kate Bush

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