I had a few brushes with death, where I nearly chose to go. The final one in 1996 did it for me. I suddenly had that feeling that I wasn’t indestructible. There was no big white light experience, I just felt this complete blackness and a huge voice inside me saying, ‘This is not right.’ Dave Gahan Read Quote
The whole ‘serious artist’ thing is very damaging. The powers that be will steer you towards your own demise. One thing I’ve learned is that it’s not very glamourous, and my problems are no different from anybody else’s. Dave Gahan Read Quote
You’re only going to get surface with me. It takes me ages to warm up to people. Dave Gahan Read Quote
You’ve got to put interesting people around you; you’ve got to work with people who are gonna inspire you to take the songs you’ve written into a completely different direction, because there’s nothing more boring than going to the studio and predictably knowing what is going to happen. Dave Gahan Read Quote
I go to a very visual place when I’m singing. It’s very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that. Dave Gahan Read Quote
I always played around with writing songs, but when you’re spending a lot of time in bars, you have a lot of big ideas, but you don’t do much with them. Dave Gahan Read Quote
There’s that side of me that wants to be the loving, caring father, and there’s the other side of me that’s just a dirty animal. If I don’t let that out, I go nuts. Dave Gahan Read Quote
I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community. There’s something sort of spiritual about it in a lot of ways. It’s like we’re all doing this together. Dave Gahan Read Quote
It takes a long time to find your own voice. Along the way, you imitate all the things that influence you – in my case Johnny Cash, Bowie, John Lydon. Dave Gahan Read Quote
I think there’s a great strength in having the courage and also having the support to do what you want to do when you’re an artist in any way, shape or form. Dave Gahan Read Quote
