Top 70 Kate Bush Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “We let the weirdness in.”

— Kate Bush

2. “I just know that something good is going to happen. I don’t know when – but just saying it could even make it happen.”

— Kate Bush

3. “The only person with you all your life is you. Your parents die. Things inside you die – illusions, gushes of personality. Only you can sort yourself out. Yourself may not be all you need, but it’s all you’ve got.”

— Kate Bush

4. “Every old sock meets an old shoe.”

— Kate Bush

5. “Everyone of us has a heaven inside.”

— Kate Bush

6. “It’s not important to me that people understand me.”

— Kate Bush

7. “They say that the Devil is a charming man. And just like you I bet he can dance.”

— Kate Bush

8. “I think quotes are very dangerous things.”

— Kate Bush

9. “I love words, I think they’re fascinating and incredibly wonderful things and part of the joy of my work is that I not only get to work with music but also with words. Sometimes it’s a difficult process but a lot of the time it’s really fun.”

— Kate Bush

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10. “Mozart didn’t have Pro Tools, but he did a pretty good job.”

— Kate Bush

11. “There is magic within, there is magic without. Follow me and you’ll learn just what life’s all about.”

— Kate Bush

12. “Bang goes another kanga on the bonnet of the van.”

— Kate Bush

13. “We let it in, we give it out, and in the end what’s it all about? It must be love.”

— Kate Bush

14. “All we’re ever looking for is another open door.”

— Kate Bush

15. “When I’m a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right.”

— Kate Bush

16. “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

17. “Clowns are always creepy!”

— Kate Bush

18. “Don’t ever think that you can’t change the past.”

— Kate Bush

19. “I haven’t actually seen a Lady Gaga tour, but I do think she’s very good.”

— Kate Bush

20. “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

21. “There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions.”

— Kate Bush

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22. “I wasnt an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.”

— Kate Bush

23. “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

24. “Im the shyest megalomaniac youre ever likely to meet.”

— Kate Bush

25. “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.”

— Kate Bush

26. “Comedy is a very big part of the English culture, the sense of humor; it’s a very dominant trait.”

— Kate Bush

27. “When you reach for a star, only angels are there. And it’s not very far, just a step on a stair.”

— Kate Bush

28. “Don’t fall for a magic wand, we humans got it all, we perform the miracles.”

— Kate Bush

29. “I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.”

— Kate Bush

30. “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. So you had a strict boundary, and that was something I’d grown up with as well. Also, you were able to have different moods on each side, which was nice.”

— Kate Bush

31. “It’s funny when you write a song – it’s easy for me now – but there’s almost a second stage where you take control of the song. You start writing it, and if you’re not careful, it just finishes itself and it might not be what you wanted. It’s very strange, it takes over itself. It has its own life.”

— Kate Bush

32. “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.”

— Kate Bush

33. “Quite often, lyrics get misunderstood – and I never mind that. I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to bethought provoking.”

— Kate Bush

34. “How could you leave me when I needed to possess you? I hated you, I loved you too.”

— Kate Bush

35. “If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It’s always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun.”

— Kate Bush

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36. “You don’t wanna hurt me, but you see how deep the bullet lies.”

— Kate Bush

37. “When I was first writing, I used to sit at the piano and play songs – I’d write one or two a night. It was my hobby. At some point, it then became a process that was mainly done within the context of the studio, and writing became part of the recording process.”

— Kate Bush

38. “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.”

— Kate Bush

39. “I just try to put myself in the sense of being a character, sometimes male. I suppose I just like the idea of trying to be different people coming from all kinds of different angles. Most of it was just from my imagination.”

— Kate Bush

40. “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

41. “I think comedy and music are both things that we need as human beings. I think that both art forms can touch people.”

— Kate Bush

42. “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

43. “My studio is a fantastic combination of old and new, and that’s how I’ve always liked to work.”

— Kate Bush

44. “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

45. “Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own.”

— Kate Bush

46. “My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.”

— Kate Bush

47. “Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.”

— Kate Bush

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48. “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

49. “My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music – Gershwin, all kinds of stuff. He was really a hugely encouraging force to me when I was little.”

— Kate Bush

50. “I like to work with a combination of analog and Pro Tools. I love the sound of analog tape, but there’s so many things you can do with Pro Tools that would be incredibly difficult and very time-consuming with analog.”

— Kate Bush