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

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.

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 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.

How about truly loving yourself now?

Where there is life, there is a hope.

That most pleasant weather to feel is the one never felt.

I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own.

Mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates.

Nonfiction, for the most part, is facts, and it's "how I was mistreated. I was mistreated. Were you mistreated? Weren't we all mistreated?"

I never work hard when I am working; I only work hard when I am not working.

Angel wanted them all to burn in h-e- double toothpicks forever.

I don't think I got thin. I think I got healthy.

I don't listen to recordings very much now, to be perfectly honest. I listened to them a lot when I was younger.