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

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.

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.

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)

To be wise for one day is better than to be intelligent for a hundred.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today I knew it then as purpose.

Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to them properly, cinema would have no need for music at all.

The aspects you are willing to ignore are more important than the aspects you are willing to accept.

Be bold. You gotta be bold.

The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.

Lead the reader toward the thought, then stop a little short.

I like to be open with journalists and I like to be honest. I hate being disingenuous because that's really uncomfortable for me; I don't excel at doing that.

To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.

People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.