We're not pop stars. Living with success is a job; it's the music that's dear to us.

I have two kids and they were by no means blank slates. One is exactly like me, one is exactly like my wife.

When you're writing for a movie, you're trying to capture the emotion of a scene. I find it a fascinating process.

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.

I don't believe that what Tears for Fears has done, and continues to do, can be pigeonholed into a genre or decade.

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.

You never stop trying to make progress as a musician.

I think parenthood does change your priorities quite drastically in an incredibly good way - most of the time.

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.

The first album is dark and introspective - tailor made for England.

I write music for film because I love it.

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.

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.

I have this TV pilot I was writing for and a couple of films. It's just a different way to express myself.

I just have to sell enough records to continue financing making more records.

Solo, you don't have compromise. It gets back to what's great when you're a musician.

The nature of Tears For Fears was there was always two of us.

I went to live in New York and released a solo album that I now know was very bad. Roland kept on with the Tears For Fears name. It was a bad split.

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.

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.

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.

We've never considered ourselves overtly political, but when it comes to English politics - people like Margaret Thatcher - you cannot just stand by and ignore all that's happening around us.

People don't really buy records anymore, so record companies won't invest in bands like us. They want cookie-cutter acts.

A lot of songs we've written have been political, but they're also personally political.