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I didn't marry someone timid and conservative.
Roland Orzabal / Musician
Marry
Timid
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I had suffered from depression in my childhood.
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Depression
Childhood
Suffered
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My voice has changed dramatically over the years.
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Dramatically
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Once you start enjoying your life, the rest is easy.
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Easy
Enjoy
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Piracy doesn't bother me that much, to be quite honest.
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Bother
Honest
Piracy
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All the serious bands, all the punks, came from Bristol.
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Bristol
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The most gratifying thing, with no question, is making records.
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The Internet makes it easier to find good music I would have to say.
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Easier
Internet
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I do an awful lot of thinking but, I also do an awful lot of dancing.
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Dancing
Awful Lot
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A song about post-teenage angst like 'Mad World' seems to be permanently relevant.
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Angst
Relevant
Permanently
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I always thought I had a difficult childhood 'til I saw the film 'Angela's Ashes'.
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Angela
Ashes
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Better to say something simply instead of giving people a bunch of vague metaphors to mull over.
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Metaphors
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I'm interested in what makes people tick, how they think, what makes them behave the way they do.
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Behave
Tick
People Way Think
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A lot of young people have been raised on our music, or rather had it forced upon them by their parents.
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Forced
Our Music
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Tears for Fears was always very personal, but at the same time, it was always big business, a lot of pressure.
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Big Business
Tears
Time Business Always
Fears
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Good, effective pop music isn't just verbal language. It takes a good physical beat to make you feel something.
Roland Orzabal / Musician
Pop Music
Good Music Feel
Beat
Effective
Physical
Verbal
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Bath was hardly known for its rock'n roll. We weren't part of the London scene or the New Romantics or any of that.
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Bath
Hardly
Romantics
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It's not good for you to be barred from traveling to certain places in your head because some skeleton is in the closet.
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Barred
Closet
Skeleton
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You are unfortunately most of the time defined by your success, when your success is not a major part of your personality.
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Defined
Majors
Personality
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I think it's a shame that 'Woman in Chains' wasn't a hit at the time, although it's become one of people's favorite songs.
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Chains
Time People Woman
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I was, like, the guy who sat at the front of the class and did his homework and did everyone else's homework and got A grades.
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Class
Grades
Homework
Sat
Front
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I kept a lid on my feelings at school but, when I was 18, dropped out of everything and couldn't even be bothered to get out of bed.
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Dropped
Lid
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A lot of people hear the records on the radio, they aren't absolutely sure who exactly Tears For Fears is, they just know they like the song.
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People
Song
Tears
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I'm proud of the younger Roland. Very proud of some of the lyrics. They stand up today. I'm cool with it, though some of it is a bit painful.
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Stand Up
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I'm a Leo, with an Aquarian mid-heaven, so I can be mistaken for an Aquarius. My Sun-Uranus conjunction in Leo makes me an honorary Aquarian anyway.
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Aquarius
Honorary
Mistaken
Conjunction
Leo
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Obviously, the big hits like 'Shout,' 'Everybody Wants to Rule the World,' 'Head Over Heels,' we play live, so there's nothing new about them to me.
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Heels
Nothing New
World Me New
Hits
Shout
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Grief is a very strange thing. It can affect you in all kinds of ways. I lost a year. I've done a lot of therapy and it's great to be back on the horse.
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Grief
Horse
Therapy
Affect
Strange Thing
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When I became a parent I forgot about the part of myself which was very emotional, very dour a little depressed - but very good at writing emotional songs.
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Depressed
Forgot
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I did psychotherapy for about six years. I stopped going regularly when I'd finished 'Elemental,' which I think probably says something. I think I'm moving on.
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Moving On
Finished
Psychotherapy
Six
Elemental
Regularly
Says
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Two decades later, Gary Jules sang 'Mad World' for the film 'Donnie Darko' and got the Christmas No 1 in 2003. That was probably the proudest moment of my career.
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Decades
Gary
Jules
Sang
Proudest
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I was halfway through writing a gothic, country house mystery when, out of the blue, I received an email inviting me to audition for the ITV show, 'Popstar To Operastar.'
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Blue
Gothic
Halfway
Inviting
Audition
Received
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In New York, no one really cares who the hell you are. It's strange to be in the public eye where people have a perception of who you are, when they have never even met you.
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New York
Eye
People
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I can do some vocals in England; I can come across to LA You can do various versions - replace this, replace that. You can use software that almost makes the record for you.
Roland Orzabal / Musician
England
Software
Versions
Across
La
Replace
Vocals
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Raoul' sold a respectable 700,000 copies without a hit single. It didn't take off. If you don't sell 8 million albums or 4 million albums again, everybody deems it a big failure.
Roland Orzabal / Musician
Albums
Copies
Respectable
Sold
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I think that definitely any trauma - whether it's childhood or later in life - affects you negatively, especially when it's suppressed, but there's so much of us which is already in place.
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Affects
Negatively
Suppressed
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I do a lot of vocal warmups, which are the same warmups I did when I was a kid, because I had a few classical singing lessons and stuff like that, so I know pretty much how I'm gonna be once I get on stage.
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Vocal
Classical
Singing Lessons
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Mad World' hasn't dated because it's expressive of a period I call the teenage menopause, where your hormones are going crazy as you're leaving childhood. Your fingers are on the cliff and you're about to drop off, but somehow you cling on.
Roland Orzabal / Musician
Expressive
Fingers
Going Crazy
Hormones
Menopause
Teenage
Cliff
Dated
Drop
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It was brilliant in LA. The kids were young enough for it not to disturb their education and it was an incredibly healthy lifestyle. The weather's so good that you're up every morning, walking in the canyons, playing tennis three times a week.
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Brilliant
Healthy
Healthy Lifestyle
Lifestyle
Tennis
Weather
Canyon
Disturb
Incredibly
La
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My dad had been in the second world war, had electric shock treatment, suffered from anxiety and was abusive to my mum. I kept a lid on my feelings at school but, when I was 18, dropped out of everything and couldn't even be bothered to get out of bed.
Roland Orzabal / Musician
Bed
Bothered
Electric
Mum
Second World War
Shock
Treatment
War Dad World
Suffered
Dropped
Lid
Second
World War
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The Internet makes it easier to find good music I would have to say. The radio stations that play the kind of music you were talking about, I don't think me and Curt Smith would be that inclined to listen to. It doesn't really affect us and I certainly don't remember the last time I watched MTV.
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Mtv
Talking
Thinking
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