Kate Bush Quotes

I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it's stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.

I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

From a place of truth, I think artists or actors have to be real with what they're doing.

Please understand that I make music to express myself, and if you know anything about me, you know that I'm nothing but honest.

I have a hard time taking myself seriously. My band the New Pornographers doesn't take me seriously, which is why I love them. We can't stand up there and pretend. What we're doing is really important to me and it's my job and I love it, but I can't just stand there unflinchingly noble in front of the audience.

It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.

I don't know what to say about myself. I don't know myself (laughs). People say my humility but I believe we're all humble in our own way. I try to stay close to my family and friends.

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

Me in my music and onstage - that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.

When I'm onstage they know I'm honest, and I try to be as humble as I can.

People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling.

Songwriters tell the truth.

I try to acknowledge both the sacred and the silly in my work. That goes for the live show as well. If I find myself in my head or dwelling in seriousness, I think of my friends back home and how they'd be laughing at me.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Most of my songs make fun of myself.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.

It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid.

It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how.

I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

This is who I am. I'm not perfect. I don't want to try to be perfect.