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My private life, my relationships are much, much more important than my career.
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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.
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We rushed to finish the album when 'Mad World' became a hit. The pressure was on and it stopped being as enjoyable as it had been; in the end, it wasn't enjoyable at all.
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We've been playing together since we were 13, and from the age of 18, we've had a record contract. I think that we've been incredibly lucky, yeah. But we deserve it.
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Sometimes albums can be quick, sometimes they take forever, and we're very good at taking forever.
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I think Roland read 'Primal Scream' first and then gave it to me. This was, I think, even prior to 'The Graduate' days. We both got heavily into and it offered a lot of questions about how screwed up our home life was.
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When we play live show we tend to find there's a whole portion that's a considerably younger demographic. That's quite gratifying. They primarily seem to be into 'The Hurting' which I guess makes sense.
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It's incredibly cool that R & B artists like Kanye and the Weekend, who from a completely different genre to us have tapped into 'The Hurting.'
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For a lot of bands, the London club scene very much starts to become more important than the music they create. Which we never want to happen.
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I like the country, the peace and quiet, because the music business is so hectic.
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Every album is like starting our career over again. We don't get blase, we don't get lazy.
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In England, people get bored very quickly. People aren't satisfied with one thing. You can have hits, but to stay there you have to start doing new things.
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American rock was, and still is to some extent, a closed shop. REO Speedwagon, Toto, Boston, Foreigner all those bands, and I wouldn't be able to tell which from which.
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People forgot about us, which was what we wanted. We could be left alone without any pressure to make music.
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In the music business, we're much better off staying in Bath - we don't get involved in the competitiveness, where you've got to be seen in the right places and music kind of takes second place.
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I hate touring beyond measure. I don't like all the travelling and the hotel rooms. But the hour and a half on stage each night keep me going.
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We've always been slammed by most of the British press. They probably hate us because we're too normal and incredibly honest.
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And I think the first LP was perhaps too precious. It was our life's work up to that point; there was so much pain in trying to make the perfect statement. We couldn't relax and I think most people missed what we were trying to say.
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We've never been a musically fashionable band. We've been successful, but I think that has something to do with us never following the trends.
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It's definitely a joy when you make a record to know you are doing it for the right reasons: You want to do it and that you think you have something valid to offer.
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We were blessed that we were successful when we were. That enabled us to live in a comfortable fashion.
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We're both getting older, our children are starting to leave home. But I can say that I'm just as passionate a songwriter now in my 50s as I was in my 20s. But instead of talking about the general kind of angst that I felt as a teenager, I'm writing about more specific issues.
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I have no preconceived ideas; I gave that up a long time ago… The only thing we can do as musicians is make an album we like, and an album that we consider to be incredibly good.
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Japanese Breakfast has recorded a beautiful, ethereal reimagining of 'Head Over Heels.'
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We were touring the States tied to a load of drum machines and sequencers and synthesizers, playing to hundreds of thousands of people and yet feeling strangely removed from the music.
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We're not pop stars. Living with success is a job; it's the music that's dear to us.
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I have two kids and they were by no means blank slates. One is exactly like me, one is exactly like my wife.
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When you're writing for a movie, you're trying to capture the emotion of a scene. I find it a fascinating process.
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When you're writing songs for yourself, as all artists do, it's about 'me.' It's about what you feel and your emotions. You're trying to get something out of your system about your experiences.
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I don't believe that what Tears for Fears has done, and continues to do, can be pigeonholed into a genre or decade.
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My daughters prefer Tears for Fears songs as they're more upbeat and generic. Dad's songs are 'a little too sad' for them, which just means that they're harder to understand.
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I think parenthood does change your priorities quite drastically in an incredibly good way - most of the time.
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I think people forget even though we were labelled a synth band because of 'The Hurting,' but keyboards are not our native instruments. Roland's a guitar player and I'm a bass player.
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Due to the Internet, we don't perform new songs until a release. Don't get me wrong, I love new technology, but in the case of a new song we would like the original recording and production to be heard first.
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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.
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I have this TV pilot I was writing for and a couple of films. It's just a different way to express myself.
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Solo, you don't have compromise. It gets back to what's great when you're a musician.
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