A biography for Curt Smithhasn’t been written yet.
“Every album is like starting our career over again. We don't get blase, we don't get lazy.”
“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.”
“When you're writing for a movie, you're trying to capture the emotion of a scene. I find it a fascinating process.”
“The nature of Tears For Fears was there was always two of us.”
“I saw a band called The Electric Guitars, from Bristol. I described them to Roland, and he just started playing a riff on guitar and said, 'Do they sound like this?' And they did.”
“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.”
“Laurel Canyon area music is legendary.”
“Tears for Fears is me and Roland.”
“I see bands that have been around for a long time who go through the motions. They're tired and they shouldn't really be doing it any more. We are doing it because we like it.”
“In England, people get bored very quickly. People aren't satisfied with one thing. You can have hits, but to stay there you have to start doing new things.”
“At the height of our fame, we didn't see anything. We didn't leave the hotel because we were doing interviews all day. We may have traveled the world, but we saw nothing.”
“I have this TV pilot I was writing for and a couple of films. It's just a different way to express myself.”
“I don't think we ever really think about it when we're doing it, because if you sort of go in with a plan of attack, it tends to take away the natural rhythm of songwriting.”
“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.”
“It's incredibly cool that R & B artists like Kanye and the Weekend, who from a completely different genre to us have tapped into 'The Hurting.'”
“Japanese Breakfast has recorded a beautiful, ethereal reimagining of 'Head Over Heels.'”
“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 live 10 miles outside of Bath, where there are about 10 houses. So it's nice and peaceful and quiet. Keeps your feet on the ground, basically.”
“It's definitely a joy when you make a record to know you are doing it for the right reasons: You want to do it and that you think you have something valid to offer.”
“Technology was changing just as we were getting started. You had these records by people like David Bowie and Talking Heads and Brian Eno that took production into a whole new direction. That really influenced us, and pushed us to find that early sound we had.”