More Than Accepted, It's Encouraged For Rock

Anything That I Write Comes From The Soul.

I Wanted To Keep The Music Very Electronic, Very Filmic, And Give It An Almost Sci-fi Like Quality. Music Is A Necessity For Me. I Go Into The Studio At Least Five Days A Week, Every Week, So Once I Had The Idea And The Template, The Process Was Quick And Fun.

As Part Of Depeche Mode, I Don't Think It's Right For Me To Be Using My Own Songs For A Solo Project. I'm Not A Very Prolific Songwriter, So I Keep Those For Depeche Mode.

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.

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.