Quotes from Kate Bush

Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.

I was aware of a lot of my friends being into things I wasn't into. Like sarcasm. It had never been a part of my family - they still don't use sarcasm.

One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.

I have to say I find it totally astounding that my albums do as well as they do. It's quite extraordinary, and it's actually very touching for me for the albums to be received with such warmth.

It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.

There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

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

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.

I suppose the worst case scenario is that people will get to the point where they can't actually afford to make what they want to make creatively. The industry is collapsing.

When I'm a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right.

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 of inspiration floating about and grab them.

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

I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.

You'll never know that you had all of me. You'll never know the poetry you've stirred in me.

The world is continually changing. I think in some ways it's changing in a very positive way.

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

It wasn't that we were afraid of the Church or the Vatican. The record company thought people might find the title offensive. They asked me if I would change ["A Deal with God"].

They were worried we wouldn't get any radio play at all[ for "A Deal with God" ]. That's why it was changed [to "Running Up That Hill"].

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

50 Words of Snow just didn't seem to have the complications that quite a lot of albums have. It felt to me like it had this very good flow of energy.

I suppose my biggest concern would be if the planet is going to be in good enough shape for the next generation to have the privileges that we've had.

You're never really happy. I'm certainly not. That's a good thing. It means you're always striving to do better. You hope the next piece will be better.

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

Everyone of us has a heaven inside.