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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

Don’t ever think that you can’t change the past.
KATE BUSH

Dense Past Thinking
I have intentions as a writer, but people – when they’re listening to a track – will take from it what they interpret.
KATE BUSH

Listening People Track
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

Brother Mother Music Playing
What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love. Eat the music.
KATE BUSH

Life Singing Song
It’s not that I don’t like American pop; I’m a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding.
KATE BUSH

Admirer Roots Thinking
Just being alive It can really hurt These moments given Are a gift from time.
KATE BUSH

Alive Hurt Time
All the time it’s a changing And all the dreamers are waking.
KATE BUSH

Dreamer Time Waking
When you reach for a star, only angels are there. And it’s not very far, just a step on a stair.
KATE BUSH

Angel Stars Steps
Being nervous actually kept me very tense.
KATE BUSH

Actually Kept Nervous Tense
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

Back Effort Laid Trying
Every old sock meets an old shoe
KATE BUSH

Meets Old Shoes Sock
In some ways, when you re-envision a song like that [“Never Be Mine”], there’s a completely different energy to it each night.
KATE BUSH

Energy Night Song
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

Interesting Matter Thinking
That doesn’t matter. If it speaks to them and they get something positive from it, it’s great.
KATE BUSH

Great Matter Positive Something Speak
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

Hurt Loner School
Some of the best pop music ever has come out of the States.
KATE BUSH

Music Pops States

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.

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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.

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