A happy wife is a happy life.
Any reaction is better than none.
As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.
Being real is what is important.
Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!
Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.
For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.
For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.
I always knew that I was working towards a band.
I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
I am really addicted to music.
I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.
I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.
I find it a bit frustrating that people can't hear the grounding in bands like Public Image or My Bloody Valentine, which I can hear quite clearly.
I grew up with the myth of Woodstock and my generation never had anything like it. But I was pretty shocked to find out what went on, especially the rapes.
I have a home studio in London, and I have a studio to record in. In LA I travel with my drum machine and my tape recorder, so I'm always fluid like that.
I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.
I hear the Beatles and their influence, and who are supposed to be the new Beatles. That is absolutely ridiculous!
I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.
I love to act. I find it very inspiring.
I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.
I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.
I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
I see myself as a songwriter. I needed to get the songs out.
I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.
I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
I think that records should reflect your state of mind, and if there's outside things entering into the picture, you dilute that.
I thought Elvis was really amazing. I also loved Bruce Lee.
I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.
If you hold out for the movies we thought were really good, maybe you get away from it being too dilettantish.
If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.
In a band that works out well, everybody has a certain role to fulfill.
It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
Lyrics are really important for me.
Only the guys who never made it and will never make it in the U.S. need to put up the front that they don't care about America.
Paying overdubs and all that is too mechanical. The music loses a lot that way.
Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
Space is everything to me. I write songs, some ideas, and then I have someone come in and flesh them out, and the process goes from there.
The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.
The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.
There are critics who seem to downright hate us, but we never eet them. The guys who decide that I'm arrogant, where are they?
There are so many things that are out of your control. We're always trying to give our best, but what if the people don't like it? It can be pretty hard and merciless.
They have a right to make money out of something they helped start in the first place. It is only fair.
We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.
We started out in England in '92, and I already had two contracts with two different record companies.
We were there for the taking, they didn't want us and we went somewhere else. It's pretty simple.
When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
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