gavin--nigel--dave--robin

Quotations may or may not be completely accurate.


"Shut-up shut-up shut-up it'll be fun."

"Someday maybe we'll look back and see if we truly had an impact on our era."

"What crap do I speak?"

"I wonder what it would take to get a picture of me up there? I guess we've got a long way to go." - Gavin looking around at the Rock'n'Roll Palace, USA.

"You know the day you leave school? That's the best day of your life!"

"It's good to f*ck up sometimes!" ~after screwing up "Swim"

"I can feel and hear every single f*cking one of you" ~in concert

"I'm not sober!!!!"

"This is a song about living life how you want to f*cking live it!!" ~before Insect Kin

"Elvis has left the building" ~after "Everything Zen"

"I am in that same position that has driven some people loopy. I'm not just coming in for a week and trying it on. I'm in it. It's on me. And I know it takes a lot of mental strength to keep yourself together."

"There are so many bands I think are really brilliant and I don't understand why I'm  successful and they're not as successful."

"You do get 'road fit' and 'gig fit' when you're away so much. You get dark days when you're 5,000 miles away from home and 5,000 miles away from the person sitting next to you."

"Music heals."

"You can't study music. You've got to feel it."

"Our fans are the best in the world!"

"I can make no apologies for following my heart."

"Whatever you do, no matter where you are, or no matter where you're going, surround yourself with good people and that's a good stepping stone."

"I was always proud of what we did as a band, our achievements, and our touring."

"When life gets hard, tatto your ass."

"1,2, F*CK YOU!"

"Yes, we've got really crap busses."

"You're not worth the piss in my toilet." ~to who threw a bottle at Gavin.

"I'm insulted when somebody comes up to me and says, 'Your band is really important to me, and you've got great hair," Gavin says. "Apparently, the more records I sell, the better looking I get."

"I just try and do whatever myself is on stage. It's a bit of a mad version of yourself."

"I do boring things like making toast when ever I'm at home."

"Racism is a product of fear and ignorance. The world is richer for the mixture of different types of people--live and let live--remove fear."

"You could replace any of us with better people. You could get a better singer or a session guitar player or session bass player, but that wouldn't be Bush."

"Music is the calming force within us all."

"We all have a sh*tty day, where someone is scewing you over in someway - it's just life - just getting by."

"People can still love each other a lot and realize they dont belong together."

"I have this bizarre hatred for matching socks, it makes me feel overdressed."

"All those things that you tend to get teased at at school, they tend to, in later life, they turn to your advantage. So you shouldn't worry so much, and they're just jealous."

"People WILL judge you and people WILL be hard on you. Anyone can put holes in anyone, it's as easy as pie, you could do it in your sleep. You just have to have faith in what you're doing."