Time & Perspective Quote by Martin Gore

Domesticity is supposed to be the soft-focus counterpoint to rock stardom; Martin Gore makes it sound like a training schedule. In one breath, he’s at home with his family, in the next he’s clocking “football three times a week” like a commuter clocks meetings. That juxtaposition is the point: it punctures the myth that an artist’s real life is either glamorous chaos or serene retreat. Instead, it’s routine, bodies in motion, time managed.

The phrasing “the majority of the time” is quietly defensive, the kind of quantifying you do when you know your job invites suspicion. For musicians of Gore’s era, especially those who became symbols of excess or alienation, insisting on the domestic majority reads like reputation maintenance. He’s drawing a line between the person and the persona without sounding sanctimonious. No confession, no redemption arc; just a timetable.

Then there’s “football,” a culturally loaded word that signals normalcy, teamwork, and physicality - a counterweight to the solitary, studio-bound image of the songwriter. It’s also a small claim to belonging: not the exotic leisure of celebrity, but the ordinary ritual of friends, a pitch, a weeknight. The subtext is control. In a life built around tours, crowds, and noise, the home is where he measures himself in something steadier than applause: presence, repetition, and the simple fact of showing up.