"I dissolve in trust, I will sing with joy, I will end up dust". The line really spoke to me. That's what it is: Enjoy what you have here. You're not going to be here forever, but the songs stay forever. For me, it's like Bowie songs - they carry me, and they continue to, even though he's gone.
Dave GahanI go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.
Dave GahanYou have a tendency to just remember the bad times and bad moments. I think that often it's the way of life. Yet the rewards we got from it were fantastic and we played a lot of shows to sellout audiences in I don't know how many cities. I just think we didn't realise how insane it was until we were actually right in the middle of it and couldn't stop. We just couldn't stop.
Dave GahanI think Depeche Mode music somehow appeals to the oddball, to the person who is looking for something a little bit different.
Dave GahanI have the urge to still be part of the world, the universe, of life. Through music I have the feeling that I come a little closer to that.
Dave GahanI was actually grateful for being arrested, for the judge that promised me that I would go to prison if I didn't stay clean, because I listened to him and something clicked. Those two years when we were making album "Ultra" and I had to go back and forth to court to prove to the judge that I'd stayed clean, it gave me this time to suddenly realize, "Oh, I can do this, I can crawl my way back, I can get better. And I do want to be here."
Dave Gahan