Kate Bush Quotes

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

I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer.... People's general awareness is getting much better, even down to buying a pint of milk: the fact that the calves are actually killed so that the milk doesn't go to them but to us cannot really be right, and if you have seen a cow in a state of extreme distress because it cannot understand why its calf isn't by, it can make you think a lot.

Everyone of us has a heaven inside.

I just know that something good is going to happen. I don't know when - but just saying it could even make it happen.

I love the whirling of the dervishes. I love the beauty of rare innocence. You don't need no crystal ball, Don't fall for a magic wand. We humans got it all, we perform the miracles.

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

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

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

What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love. Eat the music.

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.

Mozart didn't have Pro Tools, but he did a pretty good job.

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

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.

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

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.

I wasnt an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.

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

When you'd buy vinyl, you'd have this lovely-sized object with a lovely picture, and you'd read the lyrics and usually there was something artistic that went with it.

You hope that the ideas will come together. You just don't know. That's part of what I suppose is part of being brave and putting creative work out there.

Don't fall for a magic wand, we humans got it all, we perform the miracles.

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.

There is magic within, there is magic without. Follow me and you'll learn just what life's all about.

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.

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.

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

The great thing about art on any level is that it can speak to all people if it's achieved properly.

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

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

I didn't dare let my mind wander off.

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.

I haven't actually seen a Lady Gaga tour, but I do think she's very good.

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

I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper.

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.

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.

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.

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. Y'know, 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'.

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

I think quotes are very dangerous things.

We let the weirdness in.

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.

Bang goes another kanga on the bonnet of the van

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.

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.

All the time it's a changing And all the dreamers are waking.

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.

We let it in, we give it out, and in the end what's it all about? It must be love.

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.

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