104 Quotes by Martin Gore

Kids today don’t know that much about vinyl.

I don’t write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

For years, I was stuck behind a keyboard rig. When I started playing guitar onstage, it was a bit of a release – not to be stuck in one spot the whole night. It’s really enjoyable having the freedom to move around. You just have to remember to end up somewhere near a microphone.

I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don’t find speaking German particularly difficult. Singing was slightly more difficult.

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.

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.

I’m not particularly prolific.

I don’t think I ever worry too much about what our target audience is, what we should be releasing. I just write naturally and organically and try to write from the heart.

When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that’s a good test of a song, when it’s really open and bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song.