Zitat des Tages von Kate Bush:
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.
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.
Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.
What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.
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.
The great thing about vinyl is that if you wanted to get a decent-sounding cut, you could really only have 20 minutes max on each side.
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.
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 think quotes are very dangerous things.
School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.
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.
Gene Wilder is so funny.
I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.
I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
I have a little boy, and I wanted to spend a lot of time with him.
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.
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.
I am just a quiet reclusive person who has managed to hang around for a while.
It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.
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.
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.
Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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.'
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.
In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.
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 don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
It's not my ambition to be a big star.
I think it's important that things are flawed.
I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.
It's not important to me that people understand me.
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.
One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.
We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.
There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
