A lot of people hear the records on the radio, they aren't absolutely sure who exactly Tears For Fears is, they just know they like the song.

Once you start enjoying your life, the rest is easy.

You are unfortunately most of the time defined by your success, when your success is not a major part of your personality.

In New York, no one really cares who the hell you are. It's strange to be in the public eye where people have a perception of who you are, when they have never even met you.

The most gratifying thing, with no question, is making records.

Piracy doesn't bother me that much, to be quite honest.

The Internet makes it easier to find good music I would have to say.

It's under my skin but out of my hands (Tears for Fears - Womain in Chains, 1992)

If you read proverbs, you will find answers to every puzzle.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

The war is ending, for the first time in the history of relations between Moscow and Grozny, and the era of peace is starting.

The man is free who is protected from injury.

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.

Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.

I don't look at ratings until somebody tells me.

To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity.

I will never fully understand; that is the nature of such creatures. Or is this Inner Truth now, this that is happening to me? I will wait. I will see. Which it is. Perhaps it is both.

Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.