„John Grant, the American singer whose album Queen of Denmark dominated the Best Of 2010 lists, lays down the influence she had on him in stark terms.

“She changed my life,” Grant says. “I first heard her in 1985, with Running Up That Hill. I was in Parker, Colorado, in the middle of nowhere, and it was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. At the time I used to take long drives with a guy that I thought I was having a love affair with when in fact he was using me for a free ride home, and I would look out at the flat fields of Colorado, dreaming about this sophisticated British woman. Then when my mother was dying, and I used to have to brush her teeth while watching her waste away, I thought about how Kate Bush captured big emotions with everyday, mundane detail. I wish I had a chance to tell her how much her music has meant to me.”

Times. 30.04.11

Double-heart John Grant.