Bush: "I'm quite a private person and I like my work to do the talking."

Bush: "I was so nervous every night that I had to really focus and keep myself in that moment so that I would not forget the words. I was really present for every song."

Bush: "I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper."

Bush: "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."

Bush: "You hope that the ideas will come together. You just don't know. That's part of what I suppose is part of being brave and putting creative work out there."

Bush: "My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could."

Bush: "When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three in the morning you can actually see bits inspiration floating about and grab them."

Bush: "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."

Bush: "The great thing about art on any level is that it can speak to all people if it's achieved properly."

Bush: "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."

Bush: "Mozart didn't have Pro Tools, but he did a pretty good job."

Bush: "Even just making albums - which was more within the structure that I've worked in for years - you have no idea how people will respond. You don't know if it'll be any good whatsoever. It can be terrifying."

Bush: "School was a very cruel environment and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt and I learnt to cope with it."