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Tears for Fears is me and Roland.
Me and Roland used to fight a lot.
Laurel Canyon area music is legendary.
Tears For Fears is my ultimate passion.
I normally don't do interviews on the road.
My kids don't really buy albums. They buy singles.
Having lawyers involved never leads to good things.
You never stop trying to make progress as a musician.
I run every day. It keeps me sane and it's my meditation.
I went through a divorce during the 'Seeds of Love' album.
The nature of Tears For Fears was there was always two of us.
I couldn't deal with the fame, the pressure and everything else.
More than anything else, being famous just didn't agree with me.
To preserve my sanity I had to leave England and move to New York.
The first album is dark and introspective - tailor made for England.
When I get some time off, I don't even want to see people half the time.
Leading into 'The Hurting,' what changed our view of music was Gary Numan.
I just have to sell enough records to continue financing making more records.
My private life, my relationships are much, much more important than my career.
I like the country, the peace and quiet, because the music business is so hectic.
Normally the amount of music we have is what you hear on the album and that's it.
We released 'Mad World' as a single because we felt the music press would like it.
You find it hard to deal with certain things and as you get older it becomes easier.
We're not pop stars. Living with success is a job; it's the music that's dear to us.
Solo, you don't have compromise. It gets back to what's great when you're a musician.
Japanese Breakfast has recorded a beautiful, ethereal reimagining of 'Head Over Heels.'
A lot of songs we've written have been political, but they're also personally political.
Every album is like starting our career over again. We don't get blase, we don't get lazy.
What happens with writing a song and demoing it, for me the demo always becomes the master.
Naturally, in a band or duo, it's really about compromise which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Sometimes albums can be quick, sometimes they take forever, and we're very good at taking forever.
It's always good to be somewhere with some history, maybe that's England, which has a long history.
I think psychology still has a sway over everything we do, but music, in and of itself, is the therapy.
I have this TV pilot I was writing for and a couple of films. It's just a different way to express myself.
I have two kids and they were by no means blank slates. One is exactly like me, one is exactly like my wife.
People forgot about us, which was what we wanted. We could be left alone without any pressure to make music.
I find that albums generally tell a story. Because it's music, it doesn't have to be in chronological order.
I think parenthood does change your priorities quite drastically in an incredibly good way - most of the time.
There's something rhythmic about running, so it's not surprising that I love it. I'm a bass player, after all.
I think when you finish an album, you tend to have your favorites, where a lot of the time are not the singles.
When you're writing for a movie, you're trying to capture the emotion of a scene. I find it a fascinating process.
I don't believe that what Tears for Fears has done, and continues to do, can be pigeonholed into a genre or decade.
MySpace is just spam central. I mean, every day I just get mail inviting me to gigs that are nowhere near Los Angeles!
We are lucky to have had the longevity we've had, garnering new people. I've even become cool to my daughters' friends.
People don't really buy records anymore, so record companies won't invest in bands like us. They want cookie-cutter acts.
I guess because we're essentially a two-man band, we're attracting Wham's crowd. But Wham! are more of a businessman's band.
We've always been slammed by most of the British press. They probably hate us because we're too normal and incredibly honest.
We spent a year touring the world and it wasn't until it was over that we truly appreciated the upside and downside of our success.
Songwriting I think, or any art form, the inspiration comes from your personal life or it can be from politics or region you live in.
The synth helped us in that it meant you didn't have to be a traditional four-piece band and basically, you didn't have to work too hard.