Kate Bush Quotes - Page 2

My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.

The great thing about vinyl is that if you wanted to get a decent-sounding cut, you could really only have 20 minutes max on each side. So you had a strict boundary, and that was something I'd grown up with as well. Also, you were able to have different moods on each side, which was nice.

We used to say "Ah Hell, we're young" But now we see that life is sad And so is love.

Quite often, lyrics get misunderstood - and I never mind that. I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to bethought provoking.

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.

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

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

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

I knew I wanted it to be a piece of theatre rather than just a concert.

Just being alive It can really hurt These moments given Are a gift from time.

I'm always hunting and prowling. I'm sure Brian [Bath] was exaggerating!

I didn't dare let my mind wander off.

When I'm a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right.

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.

Moving stranger, Does it really matter, As long as you're not afraid to feel? Touch me, hold me. How my open arms ache! Try to fall for me.

Even just making albums - which was more within the structure that I've worked in for years - you have no idea how people will respond. You don't know if it'll be any good whatsoever. It can be terrifying.

I spend a lot of my time looking at blue, The colour of my room and my mood.

I don’t know you, And you don’t know me. It is this that brings us together.

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

I'd become very involved in the production, so the albums were taking longer. So it was never a deliberate decision not to do live shows. A few times, I've thought about doing them again, but it's just kind of never happened. I've just sort of gone the path of becoming a recording artist I guess.

Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.

I'm not vanishing into thin air.

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

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.