I think it's important that things are flawed.
— Kate Bush
I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
I think that there's always room for humour in music. It's something that always takes itself so seriously, which I think is a bit of a shame.
People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.
I didn't really feel that there were any filler tracks on 'The Red Shoes,' but if I were to do that album now, I wouldn't make it so long.
That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.
I work in a very contained environment, usually.
Thanks to everyone who's encouraged and supported my work over the years.
The more I got into presenting things to the world, the further it was taking me away from what I was, which was someone who just used to sit quietly at a piano and sing and play. It became very important to me not to lose sight of that.
I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.
I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.
For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am.
I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.
It's not important to me that people understand me.
I think quotes are very dangerous things.
I have a little boy, and I wanted to spend a lot of time with him.
I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'Ulysses.' When I asked for permission to use the text, I was refused, which was disappointing.
I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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?
The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.
I definitely don't think of myself as being an influence.
I was aware of a lot of my friends being into things I wasn't into. Like sarcasm. It had never been a part of my family - they still don't use sarcasm.
School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.
I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.
For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.
But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.
What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.
I'm a very strong person, and I think that's why, actually, I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a nervous breakdown' or 'She's not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature.'
Since I was 17, I had been just making records and promoting them.
My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.
The great thing about vinyl is that if you wanted to get a decent-sounding cut, you could really only have 20 minutes max on each side.
Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.
It's not my ambition to be a big star.
There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
I'll always be tough on myself.
One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.
If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? Everything just seems to take so much time. I don't know why. Time... evaporates.
Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.
I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.
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.
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.
