Quotes by Martin Gore

Record covers helped me discover a lot of music that I wasn’t aware of.

I didn’t write songs for a very long time.

I will be the focal point for however long I decide to play. Half of me likes that idea and half of me doesn’t, but once the adrenaline kicks in, I’ll probably really enjoy it.

There’s something insane about this business – about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.

There haven’t been many credible electronic covers records.

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 don’t like to think 10 years down the road.

I don’t know if it’s cool to say this anymore, but I grew up listening to Gary Glitter. A majority of his songs were in that shuffle-blues beat, and I think that’s probably why I tend to write like that.

I didn’t expect us to be around after 25 years.

When you first sit down to write the first song, until you’ve maybe got three or four under your belt, it’s always, to me, like a mountain to climb. You look at that one blank piece of paper and you think, ‘God, how many songs do I have to write here?’ It always feels like pressure.