Kate Bush

I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.

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.

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 think quotes are very dangerous things.

I love being with my friends, relaxing and talking.

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.

I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.

I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of how to put things together.

What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

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.

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.