There's not much room for deviation, yet if you manage to crack it, there then you can express things that actually do sound unique and genuinely original.

When Depeche Mode put out a single you knew that a week later you could go and buy the 12" and it would have six versions and they were all better.

If we spent as much time feeling positive about getting older, as we do trying to stay young, how much different our lives would be.

You can't go back and edit during the live set in the club. In the studio it's different.

I know that there's a lot of room to maneuver in those kind of ghostly musical spheres.

I wouldn't judge people on their instant responses.

Despite a lot of people thinking that everything gets more and more difficult, I always assumed that people are going to be "Oh, at last you buckled, you're trying to be commercial."

It's very hard to predict what people are thinking.

When you're in the studio, you've got a narrative for what goes on, you might switch on a bit of gear and it might not work as you intended or come out a bit wrong, and you try and exploit it.

You can sit in front of a computer and have a blank slate and be completely overwhelmed by the possibilities and not get anywhere.

When you work on a computer in the studio, it's almost like fossilizing on the spot, you know, the idea of getting solidified on the spot, like a snowflake might create branches by accumulation.

I no longer needed to peel myself of my skin, or to hide. To Dash the colorless ephemeral things that existed just beneath my surface were as vivid as the beauty marks he traced on my cheek.

Now I know that, from this point on, we'll be the ones doing the chasing. And Iike it.

When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong, Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.

We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.

Caroline, do you value your neck?" "Yes, I'm rather fond of it. Why?" "Because if you don't shut up, I'm going to wring it.

We are not in a position to criticize anyone. The existence of enemies means for us that our friendliness has not been sufficient enough.

If you walk through life in a fighting pose with your fists balled up and ready to strike, someone, someday, somewhere, is going to want to test your mettle.

I wish I could blame my failure on my integrity & refusal to play bullshit games. But the truth is I just play them really badly.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.