Wuthering Heights terrified me as a child. But in the 80s Kate Bush was mysterious and alluring, and as I got older I started to become fascinated with artists who were producers of sound as well as poets. Kate’s indifference to fame has always given me something to hold on to in a treacherous industry.
Her disappearance from pop culture for 12 years – between her albums The Red Shoes in 1993 and Aerial in 2005 – fascinated the world because there was this feeling of audacity in that: how could a pop star just choose to just walk away? But I knew, being a huge Kate Bush fan, that there were two major personal life events that had happened to her: she’d chosen to become a mum and she’d lost her own mother.
