I don't like to think 10 years down the road.
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.
All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.
I try to get a degree of realism in my music.
There's something insane about this business - about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.
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.
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.
If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for.
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.
There are Depeche Mode parties around the world where people listen to our music all night long. The more remixes we can give them, the more interesting those nights have got to be.
Kids today don't know that much about vinyl.
It was so exciting to go to the record shop and buy a piece of vinyl and hold it, read the liner notes, look at the pictures. Even the smell of the vinyl.
