Roland Orzabal Quotes

The Internet makes it easier to find good music I would have to say.

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.

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.

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.

I had suffered from depression in my childhood.

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 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.

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.

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.

I didn’t marry someone timid and conservative.

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.

All the serious bands, all the punks, came from Bristol.

When you write really good lyrics – and sometimes I did! – they are just a joy to sing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Piracy doesn’t bother me that much, to be quite honest.

I do an awful lot of thinking but, I also do an awful lot of dancing.

I always thought I had a difficult childhood ’til I saw the film ‘Angela’s Ashes’.

Tears for Fears was always very personal, but at the same time, it was always big business, a lot of pressure.

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.

Once you start enjoying your life, the rest is easy.

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.

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.

I’m interested in what makes people tick, how they think, what makes them behave the way they do.

My voice has changed dramatically over the years.

Better to say something simply instead of giving people a bunch of vague metaphors to mull over.

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.

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.

A lot of young people have been raised on our music, or rather had it forced upon them by their parents.

I tend to get quite close to the songs because I’ve always been the main songwriter.

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.

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.

You are unfortunately most of the time defined by your success, when your success is not a major part of your personality.