Kate Bush, born on July 30, 1958, in Kent, England, is a British singer-songwriter celebrated for her unique voice, eclectic musical style, and innovative approach to music and performance. Rising to fame in the late 1970s with the hit single “Wuthering Heights,” Bush has released a diverse range of albums that blend pop, rock, and avant-garde influences. Albums like “The Kick Inside” (1978) and “Hounds of Love” (1985) have earned critical acclaim and commercial success. Known for her theatrical stage presence and imaginative music videos, Bush incorporates dance and visual storytelling into her performances. Despite maintaining a relatively private personal life, she has retained a devoted fan base and is revered for her creativity and originality in the music industry.

Kate Bush Quotes

1. “We let the weirdness in.”
— Kate Bush

2.”The only person with you all your life is you. Your parents die. Things inside you die – illusions, gushes of personality. Only you can sort yourself out. Yourself may not be all you need, but it’s all you’ve got.”
— Kate Bush

3. “I just know that something good is going to happen. I don’t know when – but just saying it could even make it happen.”
— Kate Bush

4. “Everyone of us has a heaven inside.”
— Kate Bush

5. “Every old sock meets an old shoe.”
— Kate Bush

6. “It’s not important to me that people understand me.”
— Kate Bush

7. “They say that the Devil is a charming man. And just like you I bet he can dance.”
— Kate Bush

8. “I think quotes are very dangerous things.”
— Kate Bush

9. “I love words, I think they’re fascinating and incredibly wonderful things and part of the joy of my work is that I not only get to work with music but also with words. Sometimes it’s a difficult process but a lot of the time it’s really fun.”
— Kate Bush

10. “Mozart didn’t have Pro Tools, but he did a pretty good job.”
— Kate Bush

11. “There is magic within, there is magic without. Follow me and you’ll learn just what life’s all about.”
— Kate Bush

12. “Bang goes another kanga on the bonnet of the van.”
— Kate Bush

13. “We let it in, we give it out, and in the end what’s it all about? It must be love.”
— Kate Bush

14. “All we’re ever looking for is another open door.”
— Kate Bush

15. “When I’m a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right.”
— Kate Bush

16.”Its so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual – there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.”
— Kate Bush

17. “Don’t ever think that you can’t change the past.”
— Kate Bush

18. “Clowns are always creepy!”
— Kate Bush

19. “I haven’t actually seen a Lady Gaga tour, but I do think she’s very good.”
— Kate Bush

20. “Irish folk is probably the biggest influence musically that I’ve ever had. My mother’s Irish. And when I was very young, both my brothers were very into traditional music, English and Irish. They were always playing music, so I was always brought up with it.”
— Kate Bush

21. “There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions.”
— Kate Bush

22. “I wasnt an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.”
— Kate Bush

23. “Im the shyest megalomaniac youre ever likely to meet.”
— Kate Bush

24. “School was a very cruel environment and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt and I learnt to cope with it.”
— Kate Bush

25. “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

26. “As the people grow colder, I turn to my computer and spend my evenings with it like a friend.”
— Kate Bush

27. “Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.”
— Kate Bush

28. “You’ll never know that you had all of me. You’ll never know the poetry you’ve stirred in me.”
— Kate Bush

29. “My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.”
— Kate Bush

30. “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.”
— Kate Bush

31. “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?”
— Kate Bush

32. “Whatever is going on in your life when you’re writing has to somehow seep into your work.”
— Kate Bush

33. “I feel like I have to do some promotion to let the people know that the records are out there; but I kind of like the idea that it’s my work that does the talking rather than me.”
— Kate Bush

34. “I think in some parts of our English history we’ve had huge amounts of almost too much great comedy. You kind of wonder how so much great work could come out of one country.”
— Kate Bush

35. “What I’ve tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else’s mind, like in Wuthering Heights.”
— Kate Bush

36. “Some of the best pop music ever has come out of the States.”
— Kate Bush

37. “Music is like comedy in that you can enjoy a very – for want of a better word – sophisticated classical piece as much as you enjoy something that’s very simple pop.”
— Kate Bush

38. “I don’t think a lot of people listen to their old stuff, do they? I spent a long time making it, so I don’t really want to spend much time listening to it again.”
— Kate Bush

39. “I think what is great is that if anything that I do is interesting to somebody else, then I really don’t think it matters at all what I had originally intended.”
— Kate Bush

40. “After I’ve done the salesman bit, I like to be quiet and retreat, because that’s where I write from. I’m a sort of quiet little person.”
— Kate Bush

41. “To say that you like music is a bit like saying you like the whole world.”
— Kate Bush

42. “Maybe if my songs feel personal, that’s very nice. I like that. I take that as a great compliment.”
— Kate Bush

43. “Sometimes when I look back on myself on those earlier records, there was so much effort going in, so much trying. With this, I was trying to make it much more laid back.”
— Kate Bush

44. “I love comedy. I like to think that there’s a sense of humor in some of my music – obviously not all of it.”
— Kate Bush

45. “When I’m writing I’ve been playing something for a couple of hours and I’m almost in a trance. At two or three in the morning you can actually see bits of inspiration floating about and grab them.”
— Kate Bush

46. “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.”
— Kate Bush

47. “I’d become very involved in the production, so the albums were taking longer. So it was never a deliberate decision not to do live shows. A few times, I’ve thought about doing them again, but it’s just kind of never happened. I’ve just sort of gone the path of becoming a recording artist I guess.”
— Kate Bush

48. “The original vocals had an awful lot of work put into them at the time, and I wasn’t really sure that I could better them – I don’t know if I have bettered them.”
— Kate Bush