I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung..

None of Your Business.' It's the only Salt-N-Pepa song that I regret..

I do a lot of the stuff that I started out doing that I think any guitar player that's concerned about the craft needs to do. It's basic practicing o….

I feel like humans are a disease. It's a hard thing to communicate in a pop song. I mean, who wants to hear that?.

A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out..

People really respond to the songs when I play them in concert. Every song comes from a different place emotionally or from a different headspace..

I tended not to be concerned about whether a song was going to be a hit when I wrote it. Because it became evident that none of us knew what was a hi….

Normally the meaning of the songs, if there is any, occurs to me after I've written the song..

Life really is very brief..

You are dead- what am I speaking to?.

An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be fille….

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made..

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort..

I think my favourite song on the album [Second Hand Rapture'] is 'Head Is Not My Home', I love the vocal melody and it's such a power hit of a track.….

I wanna be able to stand on the stage and hold out the mic and people sing all the lyrics to my song..

The great songs just come out. If it comes quick, just leave it that way..

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..

Sing songs that none have sung, think thoughts that ne'er in the brain have rung, Walk in paths that none have trod, weep tears as none have shed fo….

That song [ "Proud of your boy" ] in particular, I sing towards the beginning of the show [Aladdin], and what it does is show his wants and needs at ….

You do try to write songs that you feel like people can relate to and you try to be as honest as you can so that people hear your records and they fe….

It's just for some reason I've got just as many fans that only like me when I'm yelling or being funny or whatnot, and jumping up and down on a pogo ….