A biography for Roland Orzabalhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I always thought I had a difficult childhood 'til I saw the film 'Angela's Ashes'.”
“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.'”
“My voice has changed dramatically over the years.”
“I had suffered from depression in my childhood.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I do an awful lot of thinking but, I also do an awful lot of dancing.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It's not good for you to be barred from traveling to certain places in your head because some skeleton is in the closet.”
“I tend to get quite close to the songs because I've always been the main songwriter.”