Better to say something simply instead of giving people a bunch of vague metaphors to mull over.
My voice has changed dramatically over the years.
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.
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.
It's not good for you to be barred from traveling to certain places in your head because some skeleton is in the closet.
I didn't marry someone timid and conservative.
I tend to get quite close to the songs because I've always been the main songwriter.
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.
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.'
All the serious bands, all the punks, came from Bristol.
I had suffered from depression in my childhood.
I'm interested in what makes people tick, how they think, what makes them behave the way they do.
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.
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.
Good, effective pop music isn't just verbal language. It takes a good physical beat to make you feel something.
A song about post-teenage angst like 'Mad World' seems to be permanently relevant.
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.
When you write really good lyrics - and sometimes I did! - they are just a joy to sing.
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.
Tears for Fears was always very personal, but at the same time, it was always big business, a lot of pressure.
