Kate Bush Quotes (13 Quotes)

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.

I think quotes are very dangerous things.

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

My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.

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.

For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.

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.

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

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.

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

It's not important to me that people understand me.

I'm so pleased with everyone's work on this record. There are some lovely performances and I hope you will all feel it's been worth the wait. Bertie keeps me very busy, he is so much fun

School was a very cruel environment and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt and I learnt to cope with it.