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Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own.
It's not easy putting creative projects together. In my case, it might take a long time and you try to do the best.
I think comedy and music are both things that we need as human beings. I think that both art forms can touch people.
I just know that something good is going to happen. I don't know when - but just saying it could even make it happen.
In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.
I have intentions as a writer, but people - when they're listening to a track - will take from it what they interpret.
I wasnt an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.
I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.
In a popular medium, you're going to get loads of stuff that is trite, but there'll also be some really special moments.
The music industry is in such poor shape; it's in a really bad way, and a lot of people in the industry are very depressed.
We deliberately chose a small theatre so that the show was still intimate and the audience would become a part of the show.
In some ways, when you re-envision a song like that ["Never Be Mine"], there's a completely different energy to it each night.
I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions.
After I've done the salesman bit, I like to be quiet and retreat, because that's whereI write from. I'm a sort of quiet little person.
I am just trying to be a good, protective mother. I want to give Bertie as normal a childhood as possible while preserving his privacy.
I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of how to put things together.
The great thing about vinyl is that if you wanted to get a decent-sounding cut, you could really only have 20 minutes max on each side.
They were worried we wouldn't get any radio play at all[ for "A Deal with God" ]. That's why it was changed [to "Running Up That Hill"].
It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible thing.
I didn't really feel that there were any filler tracks on 'The Red Shoes,' but if I were to do that album now, I wouldn't make it so long.
Moving stranger, Does it really matter, As long as you're not afraid to feel? Touch me, hold me. How my open arms ache! Try to fall for me.
I think that there's always room for humour in music. It's something that always takes itself so seriously, which I think is a bit of a shame.
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.
Nobody really knows, do they? They told Stephen Hawking he only had a year left to live and how many years ago was that? You can't know it all.
The more I think about sex, the better it gets. Here we have a purpose in life, good for the blood circulation, good for releasing the tension.
People weren't even aware that I wrote my own songs. The media just promoted me as a female body. It's like I've had to prove that I'm an artist.
As we become this one global culture, in some ways it's things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are.
People ask what I really did in the three years between 'The Dreaming' and 'Hounds of Love.' I spent it with my family, living a normal home life.
Its so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.
I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.
I think as a mature artist, you're probably always trying to undo the compromises of one's self [in general]. It's not necessarily to do with youth.
50 Words of Snow just didn't seem to have the complications that quite a lot of albums have. It felt to me like it had this very good flow of energy.
I suppose my biggest concern would be if the planet is going to be in good enough shape for the next generation to have the privileges that we've had.
I was aware of a lot of my friends being into things I wasn't into. Like sarcasm. It had never been a part of my family - they still don't use sarcasm.
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.
It was obvious that computers were going to become more a part of our lives, and they will continue to unless something dramatic happens to change that.
["A Deal with God"] was the first single off Hounds of Love. I'd put a lot of work into putting that album together and I wanted it to have every chance.
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.
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.
My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
Quite understandably, people think that if there's a six-year gap or whatever, that it's taken me six years to make the album. It's not really like that at all.
I think what is great is that if anything that I do is interesting to somebody else, then I really don't think it matters at all what I had originally intended.
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.
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.
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.
The original vocals had an awful lot of work put into them at the time, and I wasn't really sure that I could better them - I don't know if I have bettered them.
I don't think a lot of people listen to their old stuff, do they? I spent a long time making it, so I don't really want to spend much time listening to it again.