Depeche Mode Quotes
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The thing about Depeche songs is that they’re so descriptive. For me, they tell some kind of story about a character who’s trying to redeem himself or to find something to believe in-some kind of faith or hope.
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I'm happy to say that my knowledge about Basildon is rather limited, particularly I was there only about three times. All my visits there were with DM and at a time within the early days when I was very interested in photography and always carried a shoulder bag with camera equipment around with me. My most insistent memory of Basildon is to sit in a disgusting pub and to get told I better shouldn't cross my legs and should hide the shoulder bag because otherwise I could be beaten up because someone might think I was a poof.
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All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.
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Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.
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I had a few brushes with death, where I nearly chose to go. The final one in 1996 did it for me. I suddenly had that feeling that I wasn't indestructible. There was no big white light experience, I just felt this complete blackness and a huge voice inside me saying, 'This is not right.'
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I find it odd seeing a DJ playing to huge audiences. I know that people have been doing it for a while, but the fact that it's been embraced so much in America now and it's become like this new, big thing, I find it slightly odd.
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There's something insane about this business - about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.
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I started getting back into buying old analog gear while we were recording. Lots of old drum machines and synths. It wasn't a conscious thing. I didn't consider myself a collector, but boxes of vintage gear would turn up virtually every day.
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As part of Depeche Mode, I don't think it's right for me to be using my own songs for a solo project. I'm not a very prolific songwriter, so I keep those for Depeche Mode.
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Martin's the songwriter, Alan's the good musician, Dave's the vocalist... and I bum around.
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I even have nephews who make music, my daughter makes music. I don't know what advice to give them these days. It's really a tough industry to break into.
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L.A. is always great. There's something special about L.A. And New York, for me, because it's home. There's nothing quite like walking onstage at Madison Square Garden.
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I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.
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It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.
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The only things we have to worry about are really stupid things.
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Kids today don't know that much about vinyl.
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There haven't been many credible electronic covers records.
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I do use texting as a great way to communicate quickly, but I don't Twitter or anything.
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To go on the road and see people sing my own lyrics back to me is just fantastic.
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It was so exciting to go to the record shop and buy a piece of vinyl and hold it, read the liner notes, look at the pictures. Even the smell of the vinyl.
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I didn't write songs for a very long time.
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There's that side of me that wants to be the loving, caring father, and there's the other side of me that's just a dirty animal. If I don't let that out, I go nuts.
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I was born with the wrong sign In the wrong house With the wrong ascendancy I took the wrong road That led to The wrong tendencies I was in the wrong place At the wrong time For the wrong reason And the wrong rhyme On the wrong day Of the wrong week Used the wrong method With the wrong technique Wrong Wrong.
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I live in Santa Barbara. My wife's American, and she lived in England for 11 years and then told me she'd had enough.