

Curt Smith explains the album's title in an interview with Melody Maker, March 1985 This is us now – and they can't get at us anymore." It's kind of an 'up yours' to the English music press who really fucked us up for a while. She felt safe, comfortable and wasn't using her different faces as a defence. She'd been tortured incredibly by her mother as a child and the only place she felt safe, the only time she could really be herself was when she was sitting in her analyst's chair. The 'Big Chair' idea is from this brilliant film called Sybil about a girl with 16 different personalities.

It's a bit perverse but then you've got to understand our sense of humour.
