Dave Gahan

Making a record with 'Depeche Mode' is not a simple process. It's quite complicated and long. We have the luxury of time. I'm not sure that's such a good thing when you're being creative.

I always played around with writing songs, but when you're spending a lot of time in bars, you have a lot of big ideas, but you don't do much with them.

In the early to mid-'90s, everywhere I turned, someone had died. It wasn't just people in bands. It was the people I was hanging out with. At some point, I thought, 'I may be heading down that road.'

We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.

It's very hard to play the straight lead girl and still make her sparkly and fun and real.

I went for a walk in the Arctic Circle without map or compass. Fortunately, I was only lost for hours, not days.