How have you seen that new life, that new presence, those new feelings kind of come into your writing as a creative person, you know, as somebody that writes songs and that kind of thing? Roland Orzabal / Courtesy of Dey Street Books Graduate with Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith I think The Tipping Point was sort of making solid what Curt and I had done in the past, kind of making it more emphatic and making it not just of its time, [but] bringing it up to date.