"Record covers helped me discover a lot of music that I wasn't aware of."
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"I love being in the studio. If I'm at home, I will go to the studio pretty much every day anyway. It's just something that I like to do."
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"If you repeat yourself, then I think you're in danger of losing that fan base, because if you're not interesting yourselves, you're not interesting your audience."
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"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."
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"I started getting back into buying old analog gear while we were recording. Lots of old drum machines and synths. It wasn't a conscious thing. I didn't consider myself a collector, but boxes of vintage gear would turn up virtually every day."
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"I wanted to keep the music very electronic, very filmic, and give it an almost sci-fi like quality. Music is a necessity for me. I go into the studio at least five days a week, every week, so once I had the idea and the template, the process was quick and fun."
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"I'm not particularly prolific."
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"People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song."
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"Kids today don't know that much about vinyl."
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"There's something insane about this business - about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them."
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"I think being in a band is probably the only job when you're actively encouraged to be out of it most of the time."
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"The majority of the time I'm at home with my family, I play football three times a week."
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"I try to get a degree of realism in my music."
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"There haven't been many credible electronic covers records."
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"As part of Depeche Mode, I don't think it's right for me to be using my own songs for a solo project. I'm not a very prolific songwriter, so I keep those for Depeche Mode."
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"I didn't expect us to be around after 25 years."
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"I don't like to think 10 years down the road."
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