Kate Bush

I have a little boy, and I wanted to spend a lot of time with him.

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.

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.

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.

I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.

In a popular medium, you're going to get loads of stuff that is trite, but there'll also be some really special moments.

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.

I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.

I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.

My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.

I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.

I work in a very contained environment, usually.