“Kate Bush used herself as an invention – something that interested me greatly as a strategy for both life and art. The songs were like stage plays in miniature – a character, a situation, a verbal collision (oh to be in love and never get out again), a vocal polyphonics that allowed her to range through pain and doubt to resolution.

I love it that through all her experiments with herself she remains clearly and cleanly the self that she is. She’s doing the work of her soul and if we like it, that’s grand, if not, she’s doing it anyway.”

Jeanette Winterson on Kate Bush, one of my artistic heroes