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My music has always been my solo project.

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.

Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.

When you're facing an investor or the institutions or a distributor, it's you yourself with your own ideas and your own project.

You never undertake a project because you think other people will like it - because that way lies madness - but rather because you believe in it.

I could make a whole album with no one else involved at all. It would be a total, unadulterated expression of myself. Because whenever you have others playing on a project, their influence becomes a part of it.

Now my main goal is my solo career, so I want to keep doing that.

But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.