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

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

" 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! "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Madonna's like a black widow spider. She tends to use people, then they shrivel up and disappear. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Accept what you did do, and live with it. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There are keyboard terrorists everywhere who hide behind a veil of anonymity to pursue their vicious slanders. "

" 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. "

" But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when you make a mistake and laugh about it. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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