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" It's really nice to be able to do what I'm doing without having to compromise with another musician. "

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" I don't pretend to be Joy Division or New Order. What I do is very straight forward: it's an interpretation and a celebration of the music, with different people. Everyone looks at it and knows exactly what I'm doing. "

" When I play a gig and look out at the audience, you're literally looking at a sea of Joy Division T-shirts. "

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

" And they do tend to be fast and up, because that's how I like to drive. "

" 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. "

" When I started DJing years ago, I took great delight in annoying the audience. Playing Johnny Cash in the middle of a banging night. "

" 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. "

" We've had a problem finding a vocalist. We have not been lucky yet to find the one. I think the problem is that the three of us have such a pedigree of vocalist, that if we come out with someone that's not good we'll obviously be slated! "

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

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

" 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. "

" When you're fat and comfortable, your music is going to sound fat and comfortable. "

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

" What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" New Order never celebrated anything to do with Joy Division. "

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

" To me, New Order split up when Bernard and I stopped writing together. We started Joy Division together; we started New Order together. "

" It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends. "

" You can't buy class. "

" It's the same misconception I used to have. I meet people and think they're millionaires and they're not. "

" Bands don't play the whole LP. They play a selection of the songs that they like. "

" Over the years, Joy Division has become a huge part of music culture. "

" Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing. "

" Bass players are always the underdogs of the band, but I made sure that I was never viewed as one. I went out of my way to steal as much limelight as I could. "

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