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"I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground."
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"Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well."

"On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit corner of his heart, he half expected to find his own face looking up at him, ice-white and dead-eyed. "Deep down," the dream-victim had said, "You know that you're already dead yourself, burnt out inside. You realize that you have far more in common with your victims after you've killed them than before."

"I huddle in the dark with a mass of burnt matches strewn at my feet. And yet, for all of those matches I've not been able to light a single candle. And huddled in such deep darkness, I've somehow yet to realize that Christmas made both matches and candles forever obsolete."

"Tej seemed such a sunny personality, much of the time-these flashes of dark were like a crack in the sky, shocking and wrong. Reminding him that the daylight was the illusion, the scattering of light by the atmosphere, and the endless night was the permanent default behind it all."

"If there's a place for me in Hell I hope it's next to someone like you."

"Hello, Darkness," Caine said.Gaia's face fell. Her bloody, feral grin faded to be replaced by lips drawn right with fear. Her killer blue eyes widened as she looked at Caine who was no longer Caine."Nemesis," Gaia said."
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"I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth."

"Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks."

"I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me."

"I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don't find speaking German particularly difficult. Singing was slightly more difficult."

"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."

"I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different."

"Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well."
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