- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Ashes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought I had a difficult childhood 'til I saw the film 'Angela's Ashes'.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had suffered from depression in my childhood.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Homework
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Grief
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of young people have been raised on our music, or rather had it forced upon them by their parents.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to get quite close to the songs because I’ve always been the main songwriter.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
My voice has changed dramatically over the years.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mad World' hasn't dated because it's expressive of a period I call the teenage menopause, where your hormones are going crazy as you're leaving childhood. Your fingers are on the cliff and you're about to drop off, but somehow you cling on.
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Marry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn’t marry someone timid and conservative.
- Moving On
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Better to say something simply instead of giving people a bunch of vague metaphors to mull over.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good, effective pop music isn't just verbal language. It takes a good physical beat to make you feel something.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in what makes people tick, how they think, what makes them behave the way they do.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tears for Fears was always very personal, but at the same time, it was always big business, a lot of pressure.
- Copies
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- London
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Bristol
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the serious bands, all the punks, came from Bristol.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020