Kate Bush

I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.

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.

It's not my ambition to be a big star.

I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.

I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

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.

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 music industry is in such poor shape; it's in a really bad way, and a lot of people in the industry are very depressed.

I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.

I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.

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, do you think?