Curt Smith

I went through a divorce during the 'Seeds of Love' album. ”

Tears For Fears is my ultimate passion. ”

I write music for film because I love it. ”

There's something rhythmic about running, so it's not surprising that I love it. I'm a bass player, after all. ”

We are lucky to have had the longevity we've had, garnering new people. I've even become cool to my daughters' friends. ”

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. ”

My father always worked away, and died when I was 17, but I hated him by that point. It hit me later in life, but back then I was teenage and angry. ”

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. ”

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

I'm becoming hip to my children because bands of their generation name us as influences, so you can definitely hear it, the same way as we were influenced by other people. ”