20 Questions:
Previous jobs?

Roland: None. I'd like to be a fashion photographer. I like all those
magazines-I don't read them, I just look at the pictures. I like beautiful
women in clothes.

Curt: I've never had a real job. I wanted to be a teacher. Maybe I still
will.

Any brothers and sisters?

Roland: I've got two proper brothers, one younger and one older. Julian, 22,
works at our fan club and Carl, 26, works as a lathe turner. I've also got
two half-brothers and one half-sister. One half-brother is 31 and is a
funeral director in Brisbane, Australia. The other one is about 35 and lives
in Portsmouth. I think he's an electrician. And the half-sister lives in
Worcester and is a housewife and mother.

Curt: I've got one younger brother, Brett- he's a computer programmer, and
one older brother, I think- Shaun, who works in the fan club. He's also in a
band, Snapshot Parody, but he 'never' says he's my brother.

What one word sums up Curt?

Roland: Curt, his name. Short, rude and abrupt

And Roland?

Roland: How about something modest like 'intelligent'...

Curt: 'Sir?'

Roland: Yeah, that's good.

What do you say to Jehovah's Witnesses?

Roland: God is dead. That's a quote from Nietsche (dead German philosopher
who was very pessimistic about almost everything)

Curt: I had a big argument with one of them once at the front door about the
fact that he just believed in God because he couldn't believe in himself.

If you had to be on a quiz show, which one would you be on?

Curt: "Call My Bluff"

Roland: Definitely. We play it a lot at home with a dictionary. It's just an
amazing game. My favourite word? 'Whange' - a Chinese walking stick or
'Poltroon' - a spiritless coward.

Curt: And 'Kea' which is a New Zealand parrot which feeds on goats for their
liver fats.

What's the strangest fan letter you've ever had?

Curt: I don't get the strange ones - Roland gets them all...

Roland: You should read Ian's (Stanley, TFF keyboard player) He gets quite a
few sexy ones. This girl wanted to bathe with him in jelly.

What music would you play at a party at your house?

Roland: Probably Talking Heads or Grace Jones. "Fear Of Music" and "Remain
in Light" by Talking Heads.

Curt: Yeah, the same, and Lou Reed and "Scary Monsters" by David Bowie. And
if I'm having a dinner party I play classical music.

Have you ever dressed up as a woman?

Roland: Yes, twice. once when I was about 7 or 8 and then again when I was
about 12. Just to see what it was like. I look really much better as a girl
- - when you're 7 you could go either way.

Curt: No, I dressed up as the back of a dog once though.

What's your favourite Tears For Fears song?

Roland: I like "Empire Building", "Listen", "The Working Hour"...

Curt: "The Working Hour", "I Believe", "Shout"...it changes.

What's the favourite thing from your childhood which you've still got?

Roland: My penis.

Curt: My birth certificate.

What song by somebody else do you most wish you'd written?

Roland: "Pipes Of Peace" by Paul McCartney, And "Still Crazy After All These
Years" by Paul Simon. I wish I'd written that. I 'tried' writing it again
and changing the words but it wasn't as good.

Curt: There's loads I wish I'd written. "Family Snapshot" by Peter Gabriel
especially.

What's your favourite Opal Fruit?

Roland: The yellow ones.

Curt: The red ones - strawberry. Oh no, we'll probably get Opal Fruits
thrown on the stage now. We mentioned fig rolls once and we had fig rolls
thrown on the stage.

Roland: We used to get lots of carrots thrown on stage, because I said on
the radio once that I liked a 'Claret'

Curt: I used to get hats thrown on stage and people giving me hats because a
guy was interviewing me and obviously his tape recorder wasn't working very
well and he asked if I collect anything and I said "yes, I've got five cats"
an he wrote down that I collect 'hats'!

Roland: We also get paper darts thrown at us during "Pale Shelter" because
that's what happens in the video.

Curt: And we have had a live tortoise and a couple of frogs on stage in
Canada. Apparently the tortoise was the symbol of the place.

Did you see Desperately Seeking Susan?

Roland: No.

Curt: No, and I've got no desire to see it either. Mind you, I wouldn't mind
seeing Madonna naked.

Would you ever go solo?

Roland: Yes.

Curt: Yes.

Who buys your underwear?

Roland: Well, I sometimes stand in the street and sell it but I think it's
the fans that buy it.

Curt: My wife buys mine from 'Marks & Spencer'.

What's the most horrible thing about your body?

Roland: The bags under my eyes - I could do without 'them'.

Curt: I could do with bigger teeth so my gums didn't show so much.

What's the naughtiest thing you did as a child?

Roland: I was caught when I was five years old in the shed in the garden
completely naked on top of a girl having a muck about, playing doctors and
nurses. My mother caught me and she was a bit annoyed, I don't know why.
Apart from that I stole some sweets once from a shop. And I told somebody -
one of my father's friends - exactly what he said about her: "my dad says
you're a slag!"

Curt: The list is endless - I wouldn't even know where to start. I was a
naughty boy. I stole a few violins and a few milk bottles from outside
people's houses. I was a little kleptomaniac when I was young.

Who would you most like to go to the pub with: Bono, George Michael, Paul
Weller or Simon Le Bon?

Roland: Paul Weller. Because he seems like a bit of a 'laugh'

Curt: He's a git. I'd choose Bono. Actually, I wouldn't go to the pub with
any of them.

Roland: I'd talk to Paul Weller about his naive attitude to politics.

Curt: And his naive attitude to music.

Roland: And I'd try and tell him how it 'really' is.

Curt: I'd be interested to talk to Bono about religion but I don't think
we'd agree. I'd probably say the same things to him as I said to the
Jehovah's Witness.

What's your favourite Duran Duran song?

Curt: "Save A Prayer" It's the only song of theirs I've really liked.

Roland: I don't like it or 'any' of them.

What's the last record you bought?

Curt: I got some cassettes before we went on tour - "Breakfast In America"
(Supertramp), "A Night At The Opera" (Queen), Bob Marley's "Legend", "Fame"
and "Fashion" by David Bowie.

Roland: "The Pipes Of Peace" by Paul McCartney.