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" I have a hard time getting my head around the idea of playing 'The Perfect Kiss' in my 50s. I can't quite get there. "

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" I don't find imitating other people's music easy at all. I remember being fifth in line for a Rolling Stones tour, early '90s, when Bill Wyman left, and I was hoping against hope that I wouldn't get the call to audition. I wouldn't be able to play a Stones song if you put a gun to my head. "

" Old men are cantankerous: they like to get their own way. "

" I am always working on new material with my production partner Phil Murphy in our guise as Man Ray; we do a lot of soundtrack work & some great collaborations. "

" I've stayed in hotels where you were scared to even put your feet on the floor, or had to sleep in a chair. "

" I play a lot of hard, uncompromising dance music; it can be anything from dance to rock to reggae. "

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

" The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!! "

" I just like keeping busy and having ten things on the go. "

" 'Movement' sounded like Joy Division, but 'Power, Corruption & Lies' is the first New Order record. "

" We loved country songs in New Order. That's our big secret! "

" There are lots of Joy Division songs that are so powerful when played live, some of which we did either never play or played very rarely. "

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

" When you've travelled for 34 years as a musician, you do all the culture stuff when you're young and full of energy. In the middle stage, you indulge too much and are scared of daylight. Then, in the final stage, you've seen it all, so you tend to take things a lot easier. "

" I read one too many books about Joy Division by people who weren't there, and they always seem to dwell on the dark, the intense, the miserable image of Joy Division. "

" For the first 18 months of Joy Division, we used our jobs to fund the band. We'd all chip in three, five quid to go and do a gig. But it was worth it. It was amazing we could afford to feed ourselves. But we were so creatively and artistically satisfied. You can't explain that to somebody who's never been there. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Originally, I didn't play any New Order when I deejayed. I suppose it comes from being a little embarrassed or humble or whatever. But people were coming to see me because of New Order, so in the end, I had to realize that if they were using my name on the poster, then maybe I should play some of the music. "

" My big frustration in New Order was that they played the same tracks all the time. "

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

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

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

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

" There are so little outtakes from the Joy Division era. We didn't have much money. You couldn't be very generous in recording, so we were very thrifty in how we recorded. Everything was very, very well looked after financially because we just couldn't afford it. "

" Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest! "

" 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 was reading an article about Kings of Leon's bass player, who said that he was directly influenced by Joy Division and by me. I was like, 'Woah!' It surprised me. It's a great compliment. "

" What was punk all about? To me, it was if you really want to do something, go ahead and do it. "

" '24 Hour Party People' was a comedy, and I knew that from the beginning. "

" I'm one of those old cynics that thinks, whoever you vote for, the government always gets in. "