When you have kids, it limits you. That was a choice I made.
When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.
Yazoo was Vince's sound ultimately. At the time Vince and I got together he had only recorded one album with Depeche and Depeche were to go on to greater things.
The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.