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Roland Orzabal
Profession : Musician
Birth : August 22, 1961
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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.
Roland Orzabal
My dad had been in the second world war, had electric shock treatment, suffered from anxiety and was abusive to my mum. 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.
Roland Orzabal
Two decades later, Gary Jules sang 'Mad World' for the film 'Donnie Darko' and got the Christmas No 1 in 2003. That was probably the proudest moment of my career.
Roland Orzabal
I'm a Leo, with an Aquarian mid-heaven, so I can be mistaken for an Aquarius. My Sun-Uranus conjunction in Leo makes me an honorary Aquarian anyway.
Roland Orzabal
A lot of young people have been raised on our music, or rather had it forced upon them by their parents.
Roland Orzabal
I had suffered from depression in my childhood.
Roland Orzabal
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.
Roland Orzabal
I tend to get quite close to the songs because I've always been the main songwriter.
Roland Orzabal
My voice has changed dramatically over the years.
Roland Orzabal
I think it's a shame that 'Woman in Chains' wasn't a hit at the time, although it's become one of people's favorite songs.
Roland Orzabal
Mad World' hasn't dated because it's expressive of a period I call the teenage menopause, where your hormones are going crazy as you're leaving childhood. Your fingers are on the cliff and you're about to drop off, but somehow you cling on.
Roland Orzabal
I didn't marry someone timid and conservative.
Roland Orzabal
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.
Roland Orzabal
Good, effective pop music isn't just verbal language. It takes a good physical beat to make you feel something.
Roland Orzabal
I'm interested in what makes people tick, how they think, what makes them behave the way they do.
Roland Orzabal
I do an awful lot of thinking but, I also do an awful lot of dancing.
Roland Orzabal
Tears for Fears was always very personal, but at the same time, it was always big business, a lot of pressure.
Roland Orzabal
Raoul' sold a respectable 700,000 copies without a hit single. It didn't take off. If you don't sell 8 million albums or 4 million albums again, everybody deems it a big failure.
Roland Orzabal
I'm proud of the younger Roland. Very proud of some of the lyrics. They stand up today. I'm cool with it, though some of it is a bit painful.
Roland Orzabal
When I became a parent I forgot about the part of myself which was very emotional, very dour a little depressed - but very good at writing emotional songs.
Roland Orzabal
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