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Maybe if my songs feel personal, that’s very nice. I like that. I take that as a great compliment.

Kate Bush

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
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.
KATE BUSH

Done Games Video
[“A Deal with God”] was the first single off Hounds of Love. I’d put a lot of work into putting that album together and I wanted it to have every chance.
KATE BUSH

Albums Firsts Together
You hope that the ideas will come together. You just don’t know. That’s part of what I suppose is part of being brave and putting creative work out there.
KATE BUSH

Creative Ideas Out Work
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
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

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

Alive Hurt Time
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

Snowflake Thinking Unique
They say that the Devil is a charming man. And just like you I bet he can dance.
KATE BUSH

Evil Like You Men
Im the shyest megalomaniac youre ever likely to meet.
KATE BUSH

Likely Meet Megalomaniacs
Nobody really knows, do they? They told Stephen Hawking he only had a year left to live and how many years ago was that? You can’t know it all.
KATE BUSH

Hawking Know Left Years
I love the whirling of the dervishes. I love the beauty of rare innocence. You don’t need no crystal ball, Don’t fall for a magic wand. We humans got it all, we perform the miracles.
KATE BUSH

Balls Crystal Fall Magic Miracle
My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.
KATE BUSH

Desire Interesting Trying
I will say it is great to have a woman in charge of the country.
KATE BUSH

Country Great Woman
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 don’t know you, And you don’t know me. It is this that brings us together.
KATE BUSH

Bring Know Together

Maybe if my songs feel personal, that’s very nice. I like that. I take that as a great compliment.

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Maybe if my songs feel personal, that’s very nice. I like that. I take that as a great compliment.

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