Quotes from 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 very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.

I think it's important that things are flawed.

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

Gene Wilder is so funny.

I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.

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

I don't think it's a very nice idea [making biopic] at all. I don't think my life is that interesting.

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.

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.

I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?

I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.

Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.

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

All the time it's a changing And all the dreamers are waking.

I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.

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

I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.

What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

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.

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.

We have a female prime minister [Theresa May] here in the UK. I actually really like her and think she's wonderful. I think it's the best thing that's happened to us in a long time.

Bright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial All the time it's a changing, like now.

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.

Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.