Waking the Witch

"... the hardest thing is sort of being psyched up in the right way to do the vocal with the right emotional feeling. And the hardest thing for me is to be able to feel relaxed enough to be uninhibited. So sometimes I do get just a little drunk, and at other times I like to do them with Del, because I feel much more relaxed than if there's an outside engineer there. I mean, I do become quite sensitive when I start singing."

So can I assume you're pissed out of your head on The Big Sky?

"Yes, I might be getting drunk on that one -- the ad libs on the end, that was where I had to get drunk. And definitely on Waking the Witch. I was very drunk doing that."

-- Kate Bush interviewed by Peter Swales, 1985