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You can't buy class.
Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.
Dance music tends to be a solitary affair.
People go and hide, but I don't. I'm a fighter.
'Love Will Tear Us Apart' is very simply written.
I love that young bands will do anything to succeed.
Old men are cantankerous: they like to get their own way.
Knowing very little about a band only adds to the allure.
I just like keeping busy and having ten things on the go.
We loved country songs in New Order. That's our big secret!
New Order never celebrated anything to do with Joy Division.
I regularly go to concerts with my children sharing the music.
The chemistry involved made everything Factory did quite special.
Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest!
Over the years, Joy Division has become a huge part of music culture.
Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.
And they do tend to be fast and up, because that's how I like to drive.
There are seven songs finished and on par with any that are on Siren's.
'24 Hour Party People' was a comedy, and I knew that from the beginning.
What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.
I'd rather have ten people who are mad for it than ten thousand who aren't.
Yeah, I still feel as if I have things to do really. I'm not ready to stop.
When you get the right people together, writing music becomes very effortless.
You don't get many chances in the world, and you don't want to throw them away.
When you DJ, you're just on your own, which is nice because there's no argument.
Bands don't play the whole LP. They play a selection of the songs that they like.
My big frustration in New Order was that they played the same tracks all the time.
When you're fat and comfortable, your music is going to sound fat and comfortable.
The worst words I could ever hear as a bass player was, 'Can you play the root notes?'
The fact is that you don't want to be away forever, but you want to lead a normal life.
A poetic, sensitive, tortured soul, the Ian Curtis of the myth - he was definitely that.
'Unknown Pleasures' is a very important record for me. It was the first LP that I recorded.
I'm one of those old cynics that thinks, whoever you vote for, the government always gets in.
We need to talk about what we are going to do and see and decide. We'll have to wait and see.
What was punk all about? To me, it was if you really want to do something, go ahead and do it.
That's it really, at the moment I wouldn't say I was influenced by any one thing in particular.
There's a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead - it's like love and hate.
I am man enough to be able to admit my own mistakes. I think that is an important trait to have.
Madonna's like a black widow spider. She tends to use people, then they shrivel up and disappear.
Bootleggers quake in fear of me ringing them on a Sunday afternoon. I call after dinner, usually.
I play a lot of hard, uncompromising dance music; it can be anything from dance to rock to reggae.
'Movement' sounded like Joy Division, but 'Power, Corruption & Lies' is the first New Order record.
It's really nice to be able to do what I'm doing without having to compromise with another musician.
At my age, I only travel business class because I just don't bend anymore; my body can't cope with it.
I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it.
It's the same misconception I used to have. I meet people and think they're millionaires and they're not.
I've stayed in hotels where you were scared to even put your feet on the floor, or had to sleep in a chair.
When I play a gig and look out at the audience, you're literally looking at a sea of Joy Division T-shirts.
My father was always Labour, and my mother was always Conservative, so I tended to sort of go in the middle.
Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing.