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.

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."

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

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.

Dance with me through moments of surreality. We are one.

We are irrational animals trained to be rational.

It's unreasonable to expect medical doctors and pharmaceutical companies to tell you how to avoid their services by trying the alternatives.

Devoting a little of yourself to everything means committing a great deal of yourself to nothing.

If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

As an actress, there's nothing worse than not knowing your cues.

A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.

God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.

Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the ears of God full of their prayers, than heaps of money in our own coffers with their curses.