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"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."
"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."
"The last time I saw this many doctors was in 1982 at the NFL Combine. They flew me in, put me in a nice hotel and took great care of me. All you have to do is just pick up the phone and call P.A.S.T. and they will do the rest for you. I am very proud of the P.A.S.T. program."
"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."
"The biggest revolutions are the ones that happen in-between our ears."
"We cannot make rivers whole unless we wholly understand them."
"I realize Im an ambitious guy, but I just try to take things as they come, you know, for the most part."
"I would like to be remembered as a responsible human being who handled business while also taking care of his family."
"When you work on a computer in the studio, it's almost like fossilizing on the spot, you know, the idea of getting solidified on the spot, like a snowflake might create branches by accumulation."
"You can sit in front of a computer and have a blank slate and be completely overwhelmed by the possibilities and not get anywhere."
"You can get the oldest drum machine out and whack out four sounds like a kick, snare, and two types of high-hat, and try and come up with the freshest thing on the spot. The gear can guide you - you can choose one bit of gear and it's obviously got its restrictions and its limitations, but at the same time, you've got to exploit what it's capable of and what it's best used for."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It's very hard to predict what people are thinking."
"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.""
"I wouldn't judge people on their instant responses."
"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."
"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."