Kate Bush

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

— Kate Bush

I work in a very contained environment, usually.

— Kate Bush

That doesn't matter. If it speaks to them and they get something positive from it, it's great.

— Kate Bush

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

— Kate Bush

[Theresa May] is very sensible and I think that's a good thing at this point in time.

— Kate Bush

Using telephones, they would be so intrusive and would really disrupt the show.

— Kate Bush

I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.

— Kate Bush

I've learned you can't take any steps to protect any art. It is so vulnerable.

— Kate Bush

My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.

— Kate Bush

It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's…

— 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

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…

— Kate Bush

Sometimes when I look back on myself on those earlier records, there was so much effort going in, so much trying. With…

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

— Kate Bush

I think comedy and music are both things that we need as human beings. I think that both art forms can touch…

— Kate Bush

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…

— Kate Bush

The whole positioning and atmosphere of the song ["King of the Mountain"] was to build up this thunderstorm that would take us…

— Kate Bush

We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all…

— 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…

— Kate Bush

Apart from the first set - which used high-level concert lighting - once you stepped into the two narrative pieces, we were…

— Kate Bush

I split it up into working on the two narrative pieces that can tell a story. The scariest thing was whether I'd…

— Kate Bush

The only person with you all your life is you. Your parents die. Things inside you die — illusions, gushes of personality.…

— Kate Bush

When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in…

— Kate Bush

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

— Kate Bush

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

— Kate Bush

When I've heard a piece of music or seen a painting that moves me, it gives me something.

— Kate Bush

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

— Kate Bush

Im the shyest megalomaniac youre ever likely to meet.

— Kate Bush

What made it special made it dangerous, so I bury it... and forget.

— Kate Bush

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

— Kate Bush

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

— Kate Bush

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

— Kate Bush

I will say it is great to have a woman in charge of the country.

— Kate Bush

[Theresa May] is a very intelligent woman but I don't see much to fear.

— Kate Bush

I don’t know you, And you don’t know me. It is this that brings us together.

— Kate Bush

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

— Kate Bush

I am just a quiet reclusive person who has managed to hang around for a while.

— Kate Bush

People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.

— Kate Bush

“How could you leave me when I needed to possess you? I hated you, I loved you too”

— Kate Bush