If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.
For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.
I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
Being real is what is important.
I can make no apologies for following my heart.
I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.
The person I love would never wear fur. Fur just makes me think of shallow women who have no conscience. The fur industry belongs to a time when people were selfish beyond belief. If you were some ancient tribal cheiftain, and there was not a department store nearby 350 years ago, I'd understand. But now, we have synthetic fibers,and it's not necessary. The elitism of fur makes me wanna puke.
Well, I'm English, so it's intimidating to step anywhere. I used to be painfully shy. I wouldn't say that I'm painfully shy anymore. But if I have the option of sitting on the edge of a circle, I will.
I am really addicted to music.
Most people who are on the road are pretty damaged. It's an escapist's life. It's not a life that forces you to look in the mirror at where you're at and what you're doing. It's one where you leave the mirror behind. I think that appeals to something in all of us. On the open road, all of your regrets are out the window.
I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.
I was in rock music in London when it was the height of Brit pop, with The Kinks revival and Suede and Blur and Oasis, and all of those really great bands that were of a certain style. If I'd really been smart and commercially minded, I would have just got myself a blazer and some Stay Press and some Fred Perry tops, and just gone out and tried to do it like everyone else. Instead, I did this ridiculous thing of trying to do this music.
I'd love a drug that was good for you, I was thinking about ecstacy with Vitamin B.
Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!
I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.
Every time I try to disown that concept for myself, which is a really healthy perspective, they bring it back all the time. It's so serious and so real and so tangible that you don't want to taint it with anything other than the thing itself. I was tickled pink with my very zen self, walking around saying that I made a record because I wanted to make a record. That's so beautiful. It's like a haiku poem. That takes away all the tension and the expectation. I just want to try to do something interesting.
Women are part of the reason for washing and keeping clean, aren't they?
There's nothing worse than someone coming up to me and going Oh God, I really love your hair.
The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.
I'm just thrilled and kind of honored that I still get the chance to do what I love, because that really is the definition of success.
As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
