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

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 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.

Give your life a destination.

When I was little, my dad used to tell me, "Will, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we ´should' be rather than recognizing how we are.

I ask myself everyday what my life is doing to me and I realize I don't have anybody I can talk to.""You should have" said the Doctor "everybody should.

The main root of every massive success is deeply rooted in one's mental imagination.

Somewhere between right and wrong lies a garden surrounded by thorns, and I have met you there.

The only thing to do with one's old sorrows is to tuck them up neatly in their shroud and turn one's face away from their grave towards what is coming next.

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

My rule is to use whatever feels right at the moment and then break that rule if you want.

On tour I'm finding out that I am half gypsy, 40% vagabond, and 10 house cat.