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

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.

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.

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.

You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky.

Don't let anyone infiltrate your happiness. Protect it as if it's all you have, because it literally is.

Walk 1 and Drink 8. Walk 1 km and drink 8 cups of water everyday. Pass it on!

... going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.

I've been famous my entire life I don't know any other way.

I was being chased by a giant crab. That's not funny.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

Believe it or not, I've got a really bad metabolism. One burger and I'm done. I'm not a guy that puts away 10 burgers.

A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art.

We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed.