Best 10 quotes of Vashti Bunyan on MyQuotes

All the new songs have been written since the re-issue of Diamond Day. With my first royalties I got a Mac and a little mixer and a keyboard, figured out the basics of a music program, and gradually started to write and record the songs and the arrangements.

Can't quite believe it after being so used to being musically invisible for so long. It makes me feel very warm to know that people who are the same age as I was when I wrote those songs understand them for what they were and find something in them.

I am not good at aligning myself with any movement that comes along but also I don't like the thought of sitting back and doing nothing.

I chose the songs for the music more than for the lyrical content and it wasn't until the end of the recording and when we were trying to decide running order that I realized how sad a lot of the songs could sound.

If in anything I have faith in something you could call the human spirit - I have faith it will always save itself at the last minute.

I have been struck by the way all the young people I've met through coming back to music are so much more generous-spirited with each other than I remembered people being. It gives me hope.

I listen to other people's music now. I didn't for many years but now I am fascinated again as much as I was when I started out.

I'm sure the audience could see me trembling. I want to do more live work; my next goal is to shake the fear.

You may think things didn't change much after the 60s 'revolution' - but they did. The levels of prescriptive disapproval for anyone who stepped outside the norm receded.

I love your eyes when you look away Thinking somewhere else of what ought to be When they’re suddenly blue for a moment of time Then the colour goes when you look at me I love your hands as a part of you As they write a word just by staying still When you talk they move, painting what you say So I understand more than words can tell I love your hair in the dark it's soft In the light it moves, red and green are brown All the time it takes for a night to pass And a lifetime grows as the day comes down I love you now as you don't love me I can't let you know you're too far away But I wonder now just what did you see When you looked at me in that loveless way