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."

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.

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.

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.

They were stuck in a moment that wouldn’t quit.

A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed.

Harmony is the inlet of God into the mind, so that the mind acts in obedience to a law above mind - and that law is unity.

I'm sometimes asked 'Can you lose the accent?'and I say 'No, but I can put on another one'.

With comedy, you have to do it right. In a drama, there's a lot of different ways to succeed in a moment. But comedy comes from reality. You can't try to be funny.

Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water.

I occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, but most people knew that my style was different.

You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.

Some people really expected he could do that, would do that. They're not expecting [Donald Trump] to target Hillary [Clinton], just to clean out the swamp.

It's not the plot [of Valley of Violence] - the plot is the reason to get all these things to happen, all these character moments to happen. It was always meant to have these two perspectives.