Depeche Mode Quotes

“There was obviously something in the air as thirtysomething urbanite Jarvis Cocker of Pulp started writing songs about trees (albeit with a polluted humour) and even the 43-year-old guru of frozen electronica, Gary Numan expressed to Mojo magazine his appreciation of ‘amazing sunsets – they’re so beautiful. The whole sky goes purple and black. I never thought that happened in England until I lived in the countryside. In the winter you get that light, it’s as if you’ve turned the goodness up, it’s good light. People pay to go into galleries to look at bricks and cut-up sheep and say it’s art, but you can sit in your garden and see the most amazing things you’ll ever see and people take it for granted ... people amaze me. A lot of people seem to have lost sight of genuine beauty. Am I sounding really old?”
― Steve Malins, Depeche Mode: The Biography: A Biography

“I think I started doing that when I was about seven, grabbing my crotch. It’s great fun. You get to grab your dick in front of 20,000 people and they all scream.’ At the time Gahan insisted that he had a clear perspective on his role as a tongue-flapping, genitalia-clutching aphrodisiac.”
― Steve Malins, Depeche Mode: The Biography: A Biography

“Gahan: ‘It was freezing up there. I thought, I’m not dressing up in this silly outfit, I’m going to look a real prat here. One shot I finally refused. The robe weighed a ton, snow up to here, carrying this fucking deckchair, the crown was freezing, I said to producer Richard Bell, You fucking do it! So in one of those long shots it isn’t actually me. I hated the idea. I was like, Anton, I want people to take it seriously!’ Corbijn was absolutely right in the end. ‘It was the most sucessful video they ever had,”
― Steve Malins, Depeche Mode: The Biography: A Biography

“I’ve inflicted so much pain and suffering on myself over the years. I had a piercing called a guiche. That’s the part between your arsehole and your balls. You’re on all fours on a gurney. Your ass in the air, your meat and two veg hanging down. Your dignity is out the window. This girl did it, tattoos all over her face. I nearly passed out with the pain.”
― Steve Malins, Depeche Mode: The Biography: A Biography

“GAHAN: ‘I don’t think I should say “Hello, Pasadena”, I think I should say, “Hello, the Rose Bowl” ... I don’t know.’ FRANKS: ‘Why don’t you say “Good Evening, Welcome To The Concert For The Masses”?’ GAHAN: ‘I’m not fucking Wordsworth, you know.”
― Steve Malins, Depeche Mode: The Biography: A Biography

“Oddly enough, Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses was a big Depeche Mode fan and he invited them to join him at a heavy metal nightclub, the Cat House. However, when he went off to a friend’s Beverly Hills barbecue and allegedly shot a pig, Depeche Mode were sufficiently shocked to issue a statement: ‘... as strict vegetarians, the band were appalled by Rose’s behaviour and do not wish to associate themselves with anyone who goes around shooting pigs for fun.”
― Steve Malins, Depeche Mode: The Biography: A Biography