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" Bootleggers quake in fear of me ringing them on a Sunday afternoon. I call after dinner, usually. "

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" To be in one band that changed the world musically is pretty good, but to be in two bands that changed the world musically, that's amazing. "

" I must confess that over my career, I've actually downplayed the importance of DJs. It's such a different art form. Then all of a sudden you try it, and you think, 'Good God, these guys do work.' I used to be very cynical and very blase about it. I can only apologize. "

" Knowing very little about a band only adds to the allure. "

" The reason Joy Division and New Order are as influential and successful as they are is because of the unique playing of all the individuals. "

" I'd rather have ten people who are mad for it than ten thousand who aren't. "

" You can't buy class. "

" People go and hide, but I don't. I'm a fighter. "

" We need to talk about what we are going to do and see and decide. We'll have to wait and see. "

" There are seven songs finished and on par with any that are on Siren's. "

" That's it really, at the moment I wouldn't say I was influenced by any one thing in particular. "

" My father was always Labour, and my mother was always Conservative, so I tended to sort of go in the middle. "

" When you balance it against New Order, New Order don't work or tour relentlessly. We definitely work in our own way and sometimes it's a bit too slow for me, so I like to plan ahead and fill my time up. "

" Yeah, I still feel as if I have things to do really. I'm not ready to stop. "

" Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring. "

" The chemistry involved made everything Factory did quite special. "

" Music was such an important part of everyone's life in the '60s and '70s, but everywhere you played, the music was dreadful. "

" I've watched so-called 'New Order' playing in Auckland, and Tom Chapman is miming along to my bass on tape... He's got his fingers on the low, and you can hear my high bass in the background. So he's miming. "

" I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it. "

" It was nice doing my own Joy Division book to be able to put forward the fact that Ian was actually quite a nice guy and very hardworking, ambitious and loyal. But the thing was, he was battling such a dreadful illness in an era when they really didn't know how to treat it. "

" I've never been out of work in my whole life. "

" The thing with Joy Division's music is that each member was playing like a separate line. We hardly ever played together; we all played separately. But when you put it together, it was like the ingredients in a cake. "

" I am man enough to be able to admit my own mistakes. I think that is an important trait to have. "

" I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism. "

" In the late '70s, the conditions that bands had to endure were, shall we say, not as civilized as they are today. People were a lot more aggressive back then. So there was definitely a lot of suffering for your art. But I would argue that was a good thing. Generally, people make better music when they suffer. "

" Most people have just heard Joy Division on record. And Joy Division on record was completely different than it was live. "

" You look at 30 Seconds to Mars, and you don't think, 'Ooh, I bet they're angry.' No one really does anger these days. I suppose it's a turn-off. "

" I always do try to encourage my children to vote and at least exercise their right. "

" The interesting thing is that New Order finished on an okay note. It was only after we split that things got worse. "

" I prefer it when I can intimidate the audience rather than the audience intimidate me. I've been lucky in my career to have both. "

" Great music seems to come from a lot of angst, and that angst is from great musicians getting together with intense chemistry. When that chemistry isn't there, people tend not to write great music. "