Kate Bush
Kate Bush
Catherine "Kate" Bush, CBEis an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. She is known for her eclectic and experimental music as well as her idiosyncratic performances...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth30 July 1958
CityLondon, England
full imaginary imagination incredibly invented life sorts stuff toys
I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.
british-musician choosing songs wrote
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.
art boundaries dancer life physical trying within
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.
frail mentally
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.'
became crazy dancer good happened keeping kept music spirits stuff training
When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular.
strongly
There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.
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I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.
incredibly isolated life people sort touring
Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.
cope learnt school
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 aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
love
I love being with my friends, relaxing and talking.
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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.
bad programmes
I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.