Quotes from Curt Smith

I run every day. It keeps me sane and it's my meditation.

I went through a divorce during the 'Seeds of Love' album.

I live 10 miles outside of Bath, where there are about 10 houses. So it's nice and peaceful and quiet. Keeps your feet on the ground, basically.

I have two kids and they were by no means blank slates. One is exactly like me, one is exactly like my wife.

We know our limitations. There's only a certain amount of time that Roland and I really want to be on the same bus together. Our limit is about four to six weeks.

We're not pop stars. Living with success is a job; it's the music that's dear to us.

I have this TV pilot I was writing for and a couple of films. It's just a different way to express myself.

Laurel Canyon area music is legendary.

You find it hard to deal with certain things and as you get older it becomes easier.

There's something rhythmic about running, so it's not surprising that I love it. I'm a bass player, after all.

Naturally, in a band or duo, it's really about compromise which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

The synth helped us in that it meant you didn't have to be a traditional four-piece band and basically, you didn't have to work too hard.

I think people forget even though we were labelled a synth band because of 'The Hurting,' but keyboards are not our native instruments. Roland's a guitar player and I'm a bass player.

We've been playing together since we were 13, and from the age of 18, we've had a record contract. I think that we've been incredibly lucky, yeah. But we deserve it.

I guess because we're essentially a two-man band, we're attracting Wham's crowd. But Wham! are more of a businessman's band.

The first album is dark and introspective - tailor made for England.

Technology was changing just as we were getting started. You had these records by people like David Bowie and Talking Heads and Brian Eno that took production into a whole new direction. That really influenced us, and pushed us to find that early sound we had.

I have no preconceived ideas; I gave that up a long time ago... The only thing we can do as musicians is make an album we like, and an album that we consider to be incredibly good.

To preserve my sanity I had to leave England and move to New York.

What happens with writing a song and demoing it, for me the demo always becomes the master.

When we play live show we tend to find there's a whole portion that's a considerably younger demographic. That's quite gratifying. They primarily seem to be into 'The Hurting' which I guess makes sense.

I think Roland read 'Primal Scream' first and then gave it to me. This was, I think, even prior to 'The Graduate' days. We both got heavily into and it offered a lot of questions about how screwed up our home life was.

I think parenthood does change your priorities quite drastically in an incredibly good way - most of the time.

My private life, my relationships are much, much more important than my career.