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What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love. Eat the music.

Kate Bush

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
Even just making albums – which was more within the structure that I’ve worked in for years – you have no idea how people will respond. You don’t know if it’ll be any good whatsoever. It can be terrifying.
KATE BUSH

Ideas People Years
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
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
I’m quite a private person and I like my work to do the talking.
KATE BUSH

Persons Private Talking Work
When you’d buy vinyl, you’d have this lovely-sized object with a lovely picture, and you’d read the lyrics and usually there was something artistic that went with it.
KATE BUSH

Artistic Lovely Vinyl
I don’t know you, And you don’t know me. It is this that brings us together.
KATE BUSH

Bring Know Together
Every old sock meets an old shoe
KATE BUSH

Meets Old Shoes Sock
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
Being nervous actually kept me very tense.
KATE BUSH

Actually Kept Nervous Tense
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

Alone Awful Spending Time
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
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
We have a female prime minister [Theresa May] here in the UK. I actually really like her and think she’s wonderful. I think it’s the best thing that’s happened to us in a long time.
KATE BUSH

Like Long Thinking Wonderful
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
All we’re ever looking for is another open door.
KATE BUSH

Anchor Doors Look Open
My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.
KATE BUSH

Desire Interesting Trying
Just being alive It can really hurt These moments given Are a gift from time.
KATE BUSH

Alive Hurt Time
Bright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial All the time it’s a changing, like now.
KATE BUSH

Jumping Time White
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

Awful Knows Original
The more I think about sex, the better it gets. Here we have a purpose in life, good for the blood circulation, good for releasing the tension.
KATE BUSH

Good Life Sex Thinking
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
It’s a real joy to be moved by something, but it doesn’t happen often to me.
KATE BUSH

Joy Moved Real
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
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

What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love. Eat the music.

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