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

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" Dance music tends to be a solitary affair. "

" 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. "

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

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

" The fact is that you don't want to be away forever, but you want to lead a normal life. "

" I look back on Joy Division very fondly indeed. I know that, of course, the band came to a tragic end, but that does not change the fact that Joy Division was a great band to be a part of. "

" 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. "

" We don't to be some kind of rock supergroup for the sake of being a supergroup. You want to change things and say something fresh and new so you appeal to people as a new group. "

" 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. "

" The break-up of a relationship is always difficult, especially a 30-year one. "

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

" My mother used to always say to me, 'Do naught, get naught.' It's an adage that I hold by. If you don't do anything, you can't really expect anything. "

" 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. "

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

" A poetic, sensitive, tortured soul, the Ian Curtis of the myth - he was definitely that. "

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" 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. "

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

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" Sarcasm is a Manchester trait. "