“The only formula we have when we work together is that we both have to have a product we can endorse when we finish. Something we both like. It's a matter of compromise. In the end what you get is what both of us can agree on. In that comes Tears for Fears. I don't know what the mix or magic is, that's just what it is.”

English singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer

Curt Smith is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He is best known as a co-founder of the pop rock band Tears for Fears, where he serves as co-lead vocalist and bassist alongside childhood friend Roland Orzabal. Smith has co-written several of the band’s songs and has taken lead vocals on some of its best-known tracks, including “Mad World,” “Pale Shelter,” “Change,” “The Way You Are,” “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” and “Advice for the Young at Heart.”