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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/the-thing-with-50-words-of-snow-is-that-it-was-lit-683x1024.jpg)
![Kate Bush Quote - I don’t think it’s a very nice idea [making biopic] at all. I don’t think my life is that interesting.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/i-dont-think-its-a-very-nice-idea-making-biopic-at-683x1024.jpg)
![Kate Bush Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/we-have-a-female-prime-minister-theresa-may-here-i.jpg)
![Kate Bush Quote - In some ways, when you re-envision a song like that [“Never Be Mine”], there’s a completely different energy to it each night.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/in-some-ways-when-you-re-envision-a-song-like-that.jpg)
