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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" You can't buy class. "

" The rise of the iPod meant that digital music became the norm, It's sad, but you can still find the real stuff out there if you look for 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. "

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

" When you get the right people together, writing music becomes very effortless. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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! "

" I regularly go to concerts with my children sharing the music. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" At my age, I only travel business class because I just don't bend anymore; my body can't cope with it. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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