Kate Bush Quotes - Page 4

I don't think it's a very nice idea [making biopic] at all. I don't think my life is that interesting.

The original vocals had an awful lot of work put into them at the time, and I wasn't really sure that I could better them - I don't know if I have bettered them.

Don't ever think that you can't change the past.

What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

I think each album does have a different energy, otherwise you'd be doing the same thing again and not experimenting anew... Albums are such autobiographical material, not in the material but as an expression of what you're like at the time.

The whole positioning and atmosphere of the song ["King of the Mountain"] was to build up this thunderstorm that would take us all onstage off into a story where we were suddenly in the middle of the ocean.

Bang goes another kanga on the bonnet of the van

I think in some parts of our English history we've had huge amounts of almost too much great comedy. You kind of wonder how so much great work could come out of one country.

When I was first writing, I used to sit at the piano and play songs - I'd write one or two a night. It was my hobby. At some point, it then became a process that was mainly done within the context of the studio, and writing became part of the recording process.

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

I spend a lot of time working and with my family, so I don't have much time around the edges to do much else. I don't really listen to a great deal of music. I love music, but since I spend a lot of time in the studio, we probably watch a movie rather than listen to albums. I get to hear stuff, but not on the grand scale.

For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.

If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It's always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun.

Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own.

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.

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 of inspiration floating about and grab them.

It's funny when you write a song - it's easy for me now - but there's almost a second stage where you take control of the song. You start writing it, and if you're not careful, it just finishes itself and it might not be what you wanted. It's very strange, it takes over itself. It has its own life.

Come up and be a kite, On a diamond flight!

Bright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial All the time it's a changing, like now.

I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.

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

They say that the Devil is a charming man. And just like you I bet he can dance.

Chips of plutonium are twinkling in every lung.

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.

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?