Kate Bush

“Thanks to everyone who's encouraged and supported my work over the years.”

“I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.”

“I have a little boy, and I wanted to spend a lot of time with him.”

“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.”

“If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? Everything just seems to take so much time. I don't know why. Time... evaporates.”

“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.”

“I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of how to put things together.”

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

“Since I was 17, I had been just making records and promoting them.”

“I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.”

“My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.”

“My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.”

“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.”

“There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.”

“I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.”

“I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.”

“I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.”

“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.”

“The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.”

“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.”