Kate Bush Quotes

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Kate Bush

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 30, 1958

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

Kate Bush

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.

Kate Bush

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

Kate Bush

I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.

Kate Bush

I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.

Kate Bush

I think quotes are very dangerous things.

Kate Bush

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

Kate Bush

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.

Kate Bush

It's not my ambition to be a big star.

Kate Bush

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

Kate Bush

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.

Kate Bush

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.'

Kate Bush

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.

Kate Bush

I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.

Kate Bush

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

Kate Bush

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

Kate Bush

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.

Kate Bush

I think it's important that things are flawed.

Kate Bush

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.

Kate Bush

There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.

Kate Bush