MySpace is just spam central. I mean, every day I just get mail inviting me to gigs that are nowhere near Los Angeles!
We really hated being in a band. The joy for us and why we slipped nicely and neatly into it was because we didn't need a band anymore. We became a duo because of technology.
I think what we find fascinating and interesting is when people take our music and turn it into emotionally something else. And weirdly, Lorde's version of 'Everybody Wants to Rule the World,' the production really goes with the lyric more than our version does, because our version, albeit the lyric is dark, the music is quite uplifting.
We just weren't a hip band. I mean we recorded our second album in Bath at a time when everyone else was recording in New York or Los Angeles.
My father always worked away, and died when I was 17, but I hated him by that point. It hit me later in life, but back then I was teenage and angry.
For me, I didn't want to be famous and there was a desire to be me and not 'that guy from the band' so I was happy to see it all go.
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.
At the height of our fame, we didn't see anything. We didn't leave the hotel because we were doing interviews all day. We may have traveled the world, but we saw nothing.
I like the country, the peace and quiet, because the music business is so hectic.
A lot of songs we've written have been political, but they're also personally political.
There's something rhythmic about running, so it's not surprising that I love it. I'm a bass player, after all.
We know we have a method of reaching people, but we have never wanted to preach. We like to make our views palatable, music that is easy to swallow, and I think we've done that.
More than anything else, being famous just didn't agree with me.
The only formula we have when we work together is that we both have to have a product we can endorse when we finish. Something we both like. It's a matter of compromise. In the end what you get is what both of us can agree on. In that comes Tears for Fears. I don't know what the mix or magic is, that's just what it is.
Me and Roland used to fight a lot.
I went through a divorce during the 'Seeds of Love' album.
Normally the amount of music we have is what you hear on the album and that's it.
I have this TV pilot I was writing for and a couple of films. It's just a different way to express myself.
I think when you finish an album, you tend to have your favorites, where a lot of the time are not the singles.
I write music for film because I love it.
