You can't go back and edit during the live set in the club. In the studio it's different.

To me, an untrained ear, a young person at the time, I would hear off the different feels, all these different sounds, and then years later realize that everyone had used the same equipment, just to their own ends.

Let's face it, we're all clones nowadays. We've all got the same archives, we've all got the same Hyundai, we've all got the same Mac or PC components, and we're all being told the same news stories globally.

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

Your reputation is what influences people to think, feel and talk about you the way they do.

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.