Curt Smith

We've influenced other artists, and when younger generations become fans of those artists and hear about us, they discover our music too. ”

Songwriting I think, or any art form, the inspiration comes from your personal life or it can be from politics or region you live in. ”

You never stop trying to make progress as a musician. ”

You know, if you ever listen to your voice on an answering machine everyone thinks we sound dreadful. That's sort of the way I think when I hear myself speak. ”

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. ”

Mad World's distinctive percussion intro was played on a Roland CR-78 drum machine. We first recorded it at twice the speed, but it sounded great slowed down. ”