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 don't like to think 10 years down the road.
If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for.
I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.
I try to get a degree of realism in my music.
I find it odd seeing a DJ playing to huge audiences. I know that people have been doing it for a while, but the fact that it's been embraced so much in America now and it's become like this new, big thing, I find it slightly odd.
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 sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.
I love being in the studio. If I'm at home, I will go to the studio pretty much every day anyway. It's just something that I like to do.
I didn't write songs for a very long time.
Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks.
Record covers helped me discover a lot of music that I wasn't aware of.
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.
There's something insane about this business - about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.
There are Depeche Mode parties around the world where people listen to our music all night long. The more remixes we can give them, the more interesting those nights have got to be.