Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don’t know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can’t stop touring, and it’s because they don’t know how to come back into life. It’s sort of unreal. – Kate Bush
In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently. – Kate Bush
My life and my work are very interlocked. That’s partly why I like to keep my private life private. – Kate Bush
What I’ve tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else’s mind, like in Wuthering Heights. – Kate Bush
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. – Kate Bush
People ask what I really did in the three years between ‘The Dreaming’ and ‘Hounds of Love.’ I spent it with my family, living a normal home life. – Kate Bush
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. – Kate Bush
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. – Kate Bush
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. – Kate Bush
I don’t know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I’m working on something – it’s more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself. – Kate Bush
School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it. – Kate Bush
There’s always ideas buzzing around, but it’s whether they actually end up materialising into a song. – Kate Bush
The great thing about vinyl is that if you wanted to get a decent-sounding cut, you could really only have 20 minutes max on each side. – Kate Bush
I think we all feel geeky at times, don’t we? Isn’t that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life? – Kate Bush
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? – Kate Bush
Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you’re in at the time. – Kate Bush
Quite understandably, people think that if there’s a six-year gap or whatever, that it’s taken me six years to make the album. It’s not really like that at all. – Kate Bush
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. – Kate Bush
I am just trying to be a good, protective mother. I want to give Bertie as normal a childhood as possible while preserving his privacy. – Kate Bush
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. – Kate Bush
Sometimes when I’m going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there’s, like, 40 people all looking at you… and when you go around the corner, they’re all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal. – Kate Bush
I think that there’s always room for humour in music. It’s something that always takes itself so seriously, which I think is a bit of a shame. – Kate Bush