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Dave Gahan
English
Musician
Born:
May 9
,
1962
Me
Music
Own
People
Think
You
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To me, it's always been a challenge to look for the light: to look for those spaces in your heart where there is hope and faith and try to embrace that rather than crush it. I've spent so many years trying to crush those feelings of hope, and I certainly succeeded for quite a while.
Dave Gahan
Hope
Faith
Me
Heart
Light
Try
Challenge
Feelings
Spent
Those
Embrace
Rather
Crush
Look
Always
Been
Years
Than
Trying
Quite
Quite A While
So Many Years
Where
Spaces
While
Succeeded
Your
Certainly
Many
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
Work
You
People
Inspire
Nothing
Boring
Direction
More
Take
Songs
Studio
Written
Put
Knowing
Because
Around
Got
Than
Going
Different
Happen
Interesting
Interesting People
Gonna
Who
You're only going to get surface with me. It takes me ages to warm up to people.
Dave Gahan
Me
You
People
Only
Takes
Surface
Up
Get
Going
Warm
Ages
I do use texting as a great way to communicate quickly, but I don't Twitter or anything.
Dave Gahan
Great
Communicate
Twitter
Way
Great Way
Texting
Quickly
Anything
Use
Making a record with 'Depeche Mode' is not a simple process. It's quite complicated and long. We have the luxury of time. I'm not sure that's such a good thing when you're being creative.
Dave Gahan
Time
Good
You
Creative
Complicated
Simple
Luxury
Long
Record
Good Thing
Sure
Making
Mode
Depeche
Quite
Being
Process
Thing
'Presence of God' is really that understanding that sometimes when you step out of your own shoes and just open your ears and listen to what's going on around you, you get answers to the questions you were asking.
Dave Gahan
God
You
Sometimes
Understanding
Shoes
Own
Ears
Out
Open
Step
Around
Answers
Were
Questions
Get
Going
Listen
Just
Asking
Really
Your
Presence
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
Spiritual
Together
Feeling
Community
Enjoy
Ways
About
Something
Feel
Like
Sort
Audience
Doing
Lot
L.A. is always great. There's something special about L.A. And New York, for me, because it's home. There's nothing quite like walking onstage at Madison Square Garden.
Dave Gahan
Home
Great
Me
Garden
Nothing
Madison
About
Something
Something Special
Onstage
New
Like
Because
Always
Square
Walking
York
Quite
New York
Special
Certain songs like 'Enjoy the Silence' - to me, it always fits anywhere. There's something about that song that's really timeless, and I never get bored or feel like I have to muster something up.
Dave Gahan
Me
Silence
Song
Enjoy
Muster
Bored
About
Something
Never
Songs
Feel
Like
Always
Fits
Up
Timeless
Get
Anywhere
Really
Certain
I go to see some big shows of other bands, and I feel like I'm so bombarded and over-stimulated that I lose interest in the music. There has to be light and shade, and less stimulating moments. There has to be an arc to the show.
Dave Gahan
Music
Light
Big
Lose
Other
Arc
See
Some
Shade
Feel
Like
Go
Stimulating
Bands
Interest
Show
Less
Moments
Shows
Bombarded
There has to be an interaction of musicians on stage. Otherwise I feel too alone up there. When performing is really good, when it really works, maybe once every 15 shows, it's very special, and you realize that's why you do it.
Dave Gahan
Alone
Good
You
Musicians
Stage
Every
Too
Otherwise
Once
Feel
Performing
Up
Very
Maybe
Interaction
Realize
Really
Special
Works
Shows
Why
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
Strength
Great
You
Courage
Think
Way
Having
Shape
Support
Also
Any
Artist
Want
Form
Growing up in a band is weird - you get stuck hanging on to what it is you think you are. But what I took into Depeche was that punk ethic, that you don't have to be accomplished to be a musician. If you've got ideas, you can do this.
Dave Gahan
You
Punk
Band
Think
Took
Musician
Stuck
Weird
Ideas
Got
Accomplished
Up
Get
Depeche
Hanging
Ethic
Growing
Growing Up
In the early to mid-'90s, everywhere I turned, someone had died. It wasn't just people in bands. It was the people I was hanging out with. At some point, I thought, 'I may be heading down that road.'
Dave Gahan
People
Thought
Down
Everywhere
Out
Some
Someone
Point
Had
Road
Heading
Bands
Died
May
Hanging
Just
Turned
Early
I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control.
Dave Gahan
Myself
Control
Find
Someone
Something
Knees
Praying
Often
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
Time
You
Writing
Big
Spending
Songs
Ideas
Around
Always
Lot
Big Ideas
Them
Much
Bars
Played
Like every New Yorker, I have a love/hate relationship with the city. There are times it's overbearing, but when I'm away even for a little while, I can't wait to get home. I am a New Yorker.
Dave Gahan
Home
Relationship
Wait
Every
City
New
Like
Am
Times
Get
Yorker
New Yorker
While
Little
Little While
Even
Away
When I'm with the wife, and we're having a romantic night, I occasionally think about a glass of red wine, but I'll order a sparkling water. I'd like the wine, but it wouldn't end with one glass, so I don't even go there.
Dave Gahan
Water
Wife
Wine
Think
About
Having
Glass
Red
Like
Red Wine
Occasionally
Go
End
Order
Romantic
Sparkling
Even
Night
I have a very addictive personality, so I'm even careful about wanting more of anything than I need - even chocolate.
Dave Gahan
Personality
Addictive
About
More
Very
Than
Wanting
Anything
Chocolate
Even
Need
Careful
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
You
Problems
Will
Own
Else
One Thing
Steer
Towards
Demise
Powers
Learned
Very
Artist
Anybody
Different
Your
Whole
Serious
Thing
Damaging
If you stick around long enough, you're going to become fashionable eventually.
Dave Gahan
You
Long
Become
Enough
Stick
Around
Going
Fashionable
Eventually
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
Death
Saying
Me
Experience
Light
Feeling
Big
Few
White
Final
Complete
Indestructible
Inside
Blackness
Voice
Brushes
Had
Felt
Go
Huge
Did
Just
Where
Suddenly
Chose
Nearly
Right
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