You don't get many chances in the world, and you don't want to throw them away.
You can't buy class.
Yeah, I still feel as if I have things to do really. I'm not ready to stop.
When you're fat and comfortable, your music is going to sound fat and comfortable.
When you get the right people together, writing music becomes very effortless.
When you DJ, you're just on your own, which is nice because there's no argument.
When I'm not playing music, certainly the last thing I want to do is listen to music!
When I started DJing years ago, I took great delight in annoying the audience. Playing Johnny Cash in the middle of a banging night.
When I play a gig and look out at the audience, you're literally looking at a sea of Joy Division T-shirts.
What was punk all about? To me, it was if you really want to do something, go ahead and do it.
What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.
We need to talk about what we are going to do and see and decide. We'll have to wait and see.
We loved country songs in New Order. That's our big secret!
To me, New Order split up when Bernard and I stopped writing together. We started Joy Division together; we started New Order together.
There are so many bootlegged Joy Division/Martin Hannett tapes, a lot of really bad bootlegs on the Internet.
And they do tend to be fast and up, because that's how I like to drive.
I just like keeping busy and having ten things on the go.
Bands don't play the whole LP. They play a selection of the songs that they like.
I always do try to encourage my children to vote and at least exercise their right.
At my age, I only travel business class because I just don't bend anymore; my body can't cope with it.
Accept what you did do, and live with it.
Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.
People go and hide, but I don't. I'm a fighter.
My big frustration in New Order was that they played the same tracks all the time.
I'm not a good flyer. Because I do it so much, I think the odds of something going wrong are not in my favour.
