Always what we’ve tried to do is express the way we feel at this particular time, about the life we’re living in. My mood changes completely because I’m listening to something that is speaking to me. I understand that there’s many people in this world that don’t have that much at all, who live awful, hard lives. The truth is, at the end of the day, we realized we don’t need that much and it’s a luxury feeling, I know, to have that. But at the same time, we’ve both lived a lot of life and we have all that as well, friends and family that you don’t get to see as much as you’d like to. In our minds, we both still feel very like these young kids still trying to figure out what we’re supposed to be doing.
LIFE AFTER DEATH MAN MEETS CREATOR EXPRESS CO HOW TO
We fear it and maybe we should somehow learn how to embrace it more. I miss him and what he brought to the world and his music. Songs that he would say, “You’d sound great on this song.” I really miss that - playlists from Mark, songs that he felt, as a singer to a singer, would be good for me to sing. Yesterday I was playing a playlist that Mark had sent me last year of songs, Gene Clark and all kinds of singer-songwriters that he wanted me to hear.
It seems to be that in the last couple of years, you get a phone call from someone, “So-and-so passed” or “Oh, remember that guy that we met in Scotland? He’s gone.” It’s happened to me a couple times - Fletch, of course, and a friend of mine, the musician Mark Lanegan, earlier this year. It’s kind of creating a sense of panic.įor me as well. Help!”Įven after the pandemic, a lot of us are reaching the age when we’re losing friends. You can’t tell me what to do.” And by the end of the album, it’s almost saying, “Please tell me what to do. All these songs take you through that, through life, from beginning to the end in a way where at the beginning where you’re stating your place, “This is my life. It can be really cruel and punishing, as well, and fleeting. This life is a beautiful, amazing, wondrous thing that we really don’t know that much about - and it ends, abruptly, usually. The whole album, “Memento Mori,” leans into that a lot, into life and death and what that means, and where do we go, if anywhere, and what happens after. When I was singing, there were many times I was reflecting the loss of a friend and a companion and what that means. And that’s Fletch of course, a huge personality, a huge part of what Depeche Mode had been up until this point. I hadn’t sung everything before he passed away, and certainly when Martin and I decided to continue working and went back to the studio, there was definitely something - a big part of what was normal to us - missing. Did you feel a sense of responsibility toward Fletch where “Memento Mori” in concerned?
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