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" As you get older, you kind of take a more sober view of life. "

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" If you choose to take a path in life, don't blame other people for the path you've chosen to take. "

" I saw the Sex Pistols, and they were terrible. "

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" I first read about hypnotism at school, and I used to do tricks like getting a really skinny guy to arm wrestle the local bully. "

" There's parts of touring I like. I like the actual performance part, but the bit when you're in the airport waiting at the carousel for your bags to come around, I don't like that a bit. "

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" I think when you're in your 20s, going from adolescence to about 24, I think your life is a series of emotional storms that you have to weather. Life is more emotional at that time, and you're less equipped to deal with what life throws at you. I always think that if you can get past 24, than life really starts at that point. "

" I think that if you're on the same team, you should be pushing in the same direction. "

" I've realized that I owe people a look behind the scenes of my own story, because I don't think anyone can have a true understanding of the music without an insight into where it came from. "

" You have to find balance. Whenever I start feeling stressed or not feeling myself, it's about balance, and it means I need to find it again. "

" I like a challenge. I like learning new skills because I didn't learn much at school. "

" Joy Division sounded like Manchester: cold, sparse and, at times, bleak. "

" We played at a festival in Mexico City, at the same time as another famous artist, and I reckon we had 55,000 people watching New Order; the other had 7,000. I think from that I've discovered the secret of success in the music industry: don't do any promotion. "

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" The drummer is the backbone of the band and is the real underrated one. "

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" As human beings, we all mature physically from childhood to adolescence and then into adulthood, but our emotions lag behind. "