Quotes from Kate Bush

Don't fall for a magic wand, we humans got it all, we perform the miracles.

I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.

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.'

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.

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 work in a very contained environment, usually.

I love being with my friends, relaxing and talking.

I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.

Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.

When your mother dies, you're not a little girl any more.

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

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

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

In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.

I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.

There is magic within, there is magic without. Follow me and you'll learn just what life's all about.

For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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.