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Catherine Bush is an English singer-songwriter, musician, dancer and record producer. Bush came to notice in 1978 when, aged 19, she topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks with her debut single "Wuthering Heights", becoming the first female artist to achieve a UK number one with a self-written song. She has since released twenty-five UK Top 40 singles, including the top-ten hits "The Man with the Child in His Eyes", "Babooshka", "Running Up That Hill", "Don't Give Up" and "King of the Mountain". She has released ten studio albums, all of which reached the UK Top 10, including the UK number-one albums Never for Ever , Hounds of Love , and the compilation The Whole Story . She is the first British solo female artist to top the UK album charts and the first female artist to enter the album chart at number one.Having been writing songs since age 11, she was signed to EMI Records while under professional assistance by David Gilmour, who, along with his associates, curated her 1978 debut album The Kick Inside. Bush slowly gained artistic independence in album production, and she has taken sole credit for the production duties on all of her studio albums since The Dreaming in 1982. After the release of her seventh album The Red Shoes , she took a 12 year hiatus that ended with the issue of her following album Aerial in 2005. She drew significant attention again in 2014 when she announced her concert residency Before The Dawn, which was her first set of shows since 1979's The Tour of Life.

Her eclectic and experimental musical style with literary and unconventional lyrical themes, has proved influential to a diverse range of artists. She has been nominated 13 times for British Phonographic Industry accolades, winning for Best British Female Artist in 1987. She has also been nominated for three Grammy Awards. In 2002, she was recognised with an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. In October 2017 she was nominated for induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018. Bush was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to music.

✵ 30. July 1958
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Kate Bush Quotes

“I am a rocket
On fire.
Look at me go, with my tail on fire…”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)

“Bad dreams in the night.
They told me I was going to lose the fight,
Leave behind my wuthering, wuthering
Wuthering Heights.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)

Dreams , Fight , Night

“One of the band told me last night
That music is all that he's got in his life.
So where does it go?
Surely not with his soul.
Will all of his licks and his R'n'B
Blow away?”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, Never for Ever (1980)

Life , Music , Soul , Night

“Oh! England, my Lionheart!
Dropped from my black Spitfire to my funeral barge.
Give me one kiss in apple-blossom.
Give me one wish, and I'd be wassailing
In the orchard, my English rose,
Or with my shepherd, who'll bring me home.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, Lionheart (1978)

Home , Kiss

“All is revealed
Not only women bleed.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)

Women

“I'm giving it all in a moment or two.
I'm giving it all in a moment, for you.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)

“Give me the Banshees for B. V. s.”

Kate Bush

B.V.s : backing vocals.
Song lyrics, Never for Ever (1980)

“I know it works for me.
As we cross the bridge — the burning bridge —
With flames behind us,
We front the line.
It's you and me, baby, against the world.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, Singles and rarities

World , Baby

“The soul cries out
Hear a woman singing
Don't want your bullshit, yeah
Just want your sexuality.
Don't want excuses, yeah
Write me your poetry in motion
Write it just for me, yeah
And sign it with a kiss.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)

Soul , Kiss , Singing

“Ooh, he's here again,
The man with the child in his eyes.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)

“Emma's come down.
She's stopped the light
Shining out of her eyes.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, Lionheart (1978)

Light

“You might not, not think so now,
But just you wait and see — someone will come to help you.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)

Thinking , Waiting , Help

“Have you ever seen a picture
Of Jesus laughing?
Mmm, do you think
He had a beautiful smile?
A smile that healed.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)

Smile , Beauty , Thinking

“All the time it's a changing
And all the dreamers are waking.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)

Change , Time

“Well we think you'd better wake up capt'n
There's something happen'n up ahead
We've never seen anything like it
We've never seen anything like it before.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)

Thinking

“Who said anything about it hurting?
It's gonna be beautiful
It's gonna be wonderful
It's gonna be paradise.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)

Beauty , Hurt

“Reaching out for that hand to hold.
Reaching out for the Star.
Reaching out for the Star that explodes.
Reaching out for Mama.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)

Star

“This kicking here inside
Makes me leave you behind.
No more under the quilt
To keep you warm.
Your sister I was born.
You must lose me like an arrow,
Shot into the killer storm.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)

Sister

“Ooh, James, are you selling your soul to a cold gun?”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)

Soul

“We're gonna be laughing about this
We're gonna be dancing around
It's gonna be so good now.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)

Dance

“He does love his numbers
And they run, they run, they run him
In a great big circle
In a circle of infinity
3.14159 26535897932 3846 264 338 3279…”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sea of Honey (Disc 1)

Love

“Every sleepy light
Must say goodbye
To the day before it dies
In a sea of honey
A sky of honey
Keep us close to your heart
So if the skies turn dark
We may live on in
Comets and stars.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)

Star , Light , Heart , Sea

“Hammer Horror, Hammer Horror,
Won't leave me alone.
The first time in my life,
I leave the lights on
To ease my soul.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, Lionheart (1978)

Life , Soul , Light , Time

“Some say that knowledge is something that you never have.
Some say that knowledge is something sat in your lap.
Some say that heaven is hell.
Some say that hell is heaven.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, The Dreaming (1982)

Hell , Knowledge

“I question your innocence!
Help this blackbird!
She's a witch!
There's a stone around my leg.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985), The Ninth Wave

Question , Help

“We let it in
We give it out
And in the end
What's it all about?
It must be love.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)

Love

“See how the child reaches out instinctively
To feel how fire will feel.
See how the man reaches out instinctively
For what he cannot have.
The pull and the push of it all.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)

Feeling

“And I can hear my mother saying
"Every old sock meets an old shoe"
Isn't that a great saying?”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)

Shoe

“Oh will you come with us
To find the song of the oil and the brush?”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)

“Another Hollywood waitress
Is telling us she's having your baby
And there's a rumour that you're on ice
And you will rise again someday.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sea of Honey (Disc 1)

Baby

“You say we're fantastic,
But still we don't head the bill.
Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! Unbelievable!”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, Lionheart (1978)

“What say you, good people?
"Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!"
Help this blackbird…”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985), The Ninth Wave

People , Help

“I'm reeling in the music,
And I've only had a few…
And I'm afraid by the way we grow old…
My darling…”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, Singles and rarities

Music , Way

“It was just so beautiful.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)

Beauty

“We let the weirdness in.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, The Dreaming (1982)

“My door was never locked,
Until one day a trigger come cocking.
(But now I've started learning how,)
I keep it shut.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, The Dreaming (1982)

Learning

“There were so many times I thought, "I'll have the album finished this year, definitely, we'll get it out this year." Then there were a couple of years where I thought, "I'm never gonna do this."”

Kate Bush

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.
MOJO interview (2005)

Time

“See how the flower leans instinctively
Toward the light.
See how the heart reaches out instinctively
For no reason but to touch…”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)

Light , Flowers , Heart

“My Pussy Queen
Knows all my secrets.
I'll never fall in love again.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, Never for Ever (1980)

Love , Secret , Making love

“I was born in a cloud...
Now I am falling.
I want you to catch me.
Look up and you'll see me.
You know you can hear me.
The world is so loud. Keep falling. I'll find you.”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, 50 Words for Snow (2011)

World

“The stars are caught in our hair
The stars are on our fingers
A veil of diamond dust
Just reach up and touch it
The sky's above our heads
The sea's around our legs
In milky, silky water
We swim further and further...”

Kate Bush

Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)

Star , Water , Sea

“Could be in a dream
Our clothes are on the beach
These prints of our feet
Lead right up to the sea
No one, no one is here
No one, no one is here
We stand in the Atlantic
We become panoramic...”

Kate Bush

Source: Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)

Clothes , Dreams , Sea

“Feel your hair come tumbling down
Feel your feet start kissing the ground
Feel your arms are opening out
And see your eyes are lifted to God
With no words, with no song
I'm gonna dance the dream
And make the dream come true...”

Kate Bush

Source: Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)

God , Dreams , Kiss , Dance

“Just being alive
It can really hurt
These moments given
Are a gift from time.

Just let us try
To give these moments back
To those we love
To those who will survive...”

Kate Bush

Source: Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)

Hurt , Love , Time

“He thought he was gonna die,
But he didn't.
She thought she just couldn't cope,
But she did.
We thought it would be so hard,
But it wasn't...
It wasn't easy, though!”

Kate Bush

Source: Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)

“Stepping out, off the page, into the sensual world.
And then our arrows of desire rewrite the speech...”

Kate Bush

Source: Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)

World

“There's something very special indeed,
In all the places where I've seen you shine, boy.
There's something very real in how I feel, honey.
It's in me.
It's in me,
And you know it's for real.
Tuning in on your saxophone...”

Kate Bush

Source: Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)

Boy , Feeling

“As an artist, you're never happy with anything you do. It's part of the process. You're never really happy. I'm certainly not. That's a good thing. It means you're always striving to do better. You hope the next piece will be better.”

Kate Bush

Source: As quoted in "In conversation with Kate Bush" by Elio Iannacci in MacLeans (28 November 2016) https://www.macleans.ca/culture/arts/in-conversation-with-kate-bush/

Happiness , Hope , Parting