One of music's most reclusive and enigmatic figures has re-emerged into what some have seen as a rich era for British female singer-songwriters. Bush's new double album, Aerial, is due out in November, only her eighth after three decades in the business. It will be treated with due reverence.

I didn't realise how commercially successful she might be. I thought of her more really, I suppose, in the terms of someone like Joni Mitchell - the level of a…

That's a song where we were listening to a lot of Kate Bush last summer, and we wanted a song which had a lot of tom-toms in it,I just had my daughter up also,…

For me, it's not important how well the songs will be received because I think she's already an amazing influence in what she's done. I listen to her stuff a l…

I think she is still relevant. It's nice to see people reinvent themselves. She was a great performer and a great singer. I like that song, you know the one, '…

I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip.

'I've changed music four or five times. What have you done of any importance other than be white?'