Quotes from Martin Gore

There are Depeche Mode parties around the world where people listen to our music all night long. The more remixes we can give them, the more interesting those nights have got to be.

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.

When people meet me I think they're surprised to find out I'm not always angst-ridden.

Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks.

If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for.

If you go into the eastern bloc countries we are huge, and in Russia. Maybe there is something about the depressing nature of our music and lyrics that some people find an affinity with.

I want people to feel good about listening to this [Delta Machine] record, to get some kind of peace. It's just got something magical about it.

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

You make one solo album, and some people swear you're about to leave the band or there are creative differences.

It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.

I don't think I've ever tried to be anything other than a weirdo.

I find it odd seeing a DJ playing to huge audiences. I know that people have been doing it for a while, but the fact that it's been embraced so much in America now and it's become like this new, big thing, I find it slightly odd.

I'm not particularly prolific.

I live in Santa Barbara. My wife's American, and she lived in England for 11 years and then told me she'd had enough.

When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really open and bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song.

I don't know if it's cool to say this anymore, but I grew up listening to Gary Glitter. A majority of his songs were in that shuffle-blues beat, and I think that's probably why I tend to write like that.

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.

I try to get a degree of realism in my music.

Technology is a bit of a double-edged sword. Used right, it's a wonderful tool, but unfortunately, it makes it easier for a lot of mediocre people to get really crappy ideas out.

Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions.

There haven't been many credible electronic covers records.

There are definite reference points to older Depeche Mode records.

Record covers helped me discover a lot of music that I wasn't aware of.

I didn't write songs for a very long time.