I do have the odd dream where I’m on stage and I’ve completely forgotten what I’m meant to be performing – so they are more nightmares than dreams. – 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
Originally, when I wrote the song ‘The Sensual World’ I had used text from the end of ‘Ulysses.’ When I asked for permission to use the text, I was refused, which was disappointing. – Kate Bush
I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something. – Kate Bush
It’s so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don’t ever want to lose contact with that. – 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
My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music – Gershwin, all kinds of stuff. – Kate Bush
I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking. – Kate Bush
I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it’s going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that’s my way to wind down. – Kate Bush
We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we’re too busy to be bothered with it. – 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
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
It’s not that I don’t like American pop; I’m a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think? – Kate Bush
As we become this one global culture, in some ways it’s things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are. – Kate Bush
I think it’s almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that’s what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something. – Kate Bush
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. – Kate Bush
For the last 12 years, I’ve felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It’s so a part of who I am. – Kate Bush
