Martin Gore
Martin Gore
Martin Lee Gore is an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist, producer, remixer, and DJ. He is a founding member of Depeche Mode and has written the majority of their songs. His work now spans over four decades. Gore's best-known compositions include hits such as "Personal Jesus", "Enjoy the Silence", "Stripped", "It's No Good", "In Your Room", "Strangelove", "I Feel You", "People Are People", "Precious", "A Question of Time", "Policy of Truth", "Everything Counts", "Behind the Wheel", "Shake the Disease", "Never Let...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth23 July 1961
I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.
I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.
I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.
I didn't expect us to be around after 25 years.
Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks.
When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy - but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.
All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.
There haven't been many credible electronic covers records.
I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground.
People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.
Record covers helped me discover a lot of music that I wasn't aware of.
The majority of the time I'm at home with my family, I play football three times a week.
Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions.
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.