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I spend a lot of my time looking at blue, The colour of my room and my mood.

Kate Bush

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

Life Singing Song
They say that the Devil is a charming man. And just like you I bet he can dance.
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Evil Like You Men
Bright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial All the time it’s a changing, like now.
KATE BUSH

Jumping Time White
The world is continually changing. I think in some ways it’s changing in a very positive way.
KATE BUSH

Thinking Way World
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

Albums Artist Faults
All the time it’s a changing And all the dreamers are waking.
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Dreamer Time Waking
I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper.
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Fashion Thinking Trends
You have to try and embrace it all and everyone who represents that change because it is happening.
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Embrace Happening Trying
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
You’ll never know that you had all of me. You’ll never know the poetry you’ve stirred in me.
KATE BUSH

Aerial Change Jumping Knows
I’m quite a private person and I like my work to do the talking.
KATE BUSH

Persons Private Talking Work
The thing with 50 Words of Snow is that it was literally back-to-back from Director’s Cut [also released in 2011]. It was more or less that I got to make two albums in one hit. I was already in this space in my mind to be writing and making an album.
KATE BUSH

Album Cutting More Space Two Writing
I spend a lot of my time looking at blue, The colour of my room and my mood.
KATE BUSH

Blue Rooms Time
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
Every old sock meets an old shoe
KATE BUSH

Meets Old Shoes Sock
Artists shouldn’t be made famous. They have this huge aura of almost god-like quality about them, just because their craft makes a lot of money. And at the same time it is a forced importance… It is man-made so the press can feed off it.
KATE BUSH

Artist Men Quality
[“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
Im the shyest megalomaniac youre ever likely to meet.
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Likely Meet Megalomaniacs
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 think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.
KATE BUSH

Powerful Snow Thinking
There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions.
KATE BUSH

Connections Patterns Strong
Maybe if my songs feel personal, that’s very nice. I like that. I take that as a great compliment.
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Compliment Nice Song
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
All we’re ever looking for is another open door.
KATE BUSH

Anchor Doors Look Open
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
It’s a real joy to be moved by something, but it doesn’t happen often to me.
KATE BUSH

Joy Moved Real

I spend a lot of my time looking at blue, The colour of my room and my mood.

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