Depeche Mode Quotes
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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.
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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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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 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 still hold on to the idea that a record can really change the way I feel.
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I always played around with writing songs, but when you're spending a lot of time in bars, you have a lot of big ideas, but you don't do much with them.
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The only things we have to worry about are really stupid things.
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You're only going to get surface with me. It takes me ages to warm up to people.
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I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.
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Growing up in a band is weird - you get stuck hanging on to what it is you think you are. But what I took into Depeche was that punk ethic, that you don't have to be accomplished to be a musician. If you've got ideas, you can do this.
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I really believe that the more distractions and fixes I remove from my life, the better I'll feel about myself. The biggest of those is Depeche Mode. It's the one marriage that survived, but I'm not sure it works - for me, anyway. Jumping on a plane to go somewhere else and be told how wonderful I am doesn't feel good any more.
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Record covers helped me discover a lot of music that I wasn't aware of.
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When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy - but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.
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I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community. There's something sort of spiritual about it in a lot of ways. It's like we're all doing this together.
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In the early to mid-'90s, everywhere I turned, someone had died. It wasn't just people in bands. It was the people I was hanging out with. At some point, I thought, 'I may be heading down that road.'
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When I was growing up in the early '70s and really getting into music, waiting outside the record store for that 45, waiting for a single from The Dead, The Clash, David Bowie, or T-Rex or something to be there. There was something about that that was so special.
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I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.
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I love being in the studio. If I'm at home, I will go to the studio pretty much every day anyway. It's just something that I like to do.
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I think being in a band is probably the only job when you're actively encouraged to be out of it most of the time.
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I wanted to keep the music very electronic, very filmic, and give it an almost sci-fi like quality. Music is a necessity for me. I go into the studio at least five days a week, every week, so once I had the idea and the template, the process was quick and fun.
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I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control.
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I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground.
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Like every New Yorker, I have a love/hate relationship with the city. There are times it's overbearing, but when I'm away even for a little while, I can't wait to get home. I am a New Yorker.
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I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community.