A biography for Kate Bushhasn’t been written yet.
“School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.”
“I definitely don't think of myself as being an influence.”
“When your mother dies, you're not a little girl any more.”
“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.”
“One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.”
“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.'”
“I am just a quiet reclusive person who has managed to hang around for a while.”
“When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular.”
“I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.”
“I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.”
“I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.”
“My friends sometimes used to ignore me completely, and that would really upset me badly.”
“I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.”
“The music industry is in such poor shape; it's in a really bad way, and a lot of people in the industry are very depressed.”
“I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.”
“I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.”
“I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.”
“Obviously I try to make the best music that I can, but after about two years of making an album, you start to worry: 'Is it going to come out all right? Is it all going to sound churned out?'”
“That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.”
“It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.”