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..

You can get the oldest drum machine out and whack out four sounds like a kick, snare, and two types of high-hat, and try and come up with the freshes….

The biggest revolutions are the ones that happen in-between our ears..

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,….

To me, an untrained ear, a young person at the time, I would hear off the different feels, all these different sounds, and then years later realize t….

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..

It seems like people need to get into the last album until they can tolerate the next one. And then, slowly but surely, by the time the new one's ava….

I wouldn't judge people on their instant responses..

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 sno….

The last time I saw this many doctors was in 1982 at the NFL Combine. They flew me in, put me in a nice hotel and took great care of me. All you have….

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

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

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

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 ori….

We cannot make rivers whole unless we wholly understand them..

I get nostalgic for things that didn't really exist. I might have a cassette from the first time a Melle Mel track, say, got played on radio in Manch….

Your reputation is what influences people to think, feel and talk about you the way they do..

I know Im not going to book everything I go in on, and thats just the nature of the business. You have to keep hustling and not get down on it. You h….

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 o….

Let's face it, we're all clones nowadays. We've all got the same archives, we've all got the same Hyundai, we've all got the same Mac or PC component….

I would like to be remembered as a responsible human being who handled business while also taking care of his family..