Top 52 Quotes by Martin Gore

I live in Santa Barbara. My wife's American, and she lived in England for 11 years and then told me she'd had enough.

I try to get a degree of realism in my music.

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.

I don't like to think 10 years down the road.

I'm not particularly prolific.

There are definite reference points to older Depeche Mode records.

I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking.

Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well.

I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me.

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.