It seems like people need to get into the last album until they can tolerate the next one. And then, slowly but surely, by the time the new one's available, they've gotten into the last one and they really love it.

We cannot make rivers whole unless we wholly understand them.

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.

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.

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 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.

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