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" 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. "

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" When you DJ, you're just on your own, which is nice because there's no argument. "

" The worst words I could ever hear as a bass player was, 'Can you play the root notes?' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I love that young bands will do anything to succeed. "

" When I'm not playing music, certainly the last thing I want to do is listen to music! "

" 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. "

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

" Dance music tends to be a solitary affair. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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!! "

" They amaze me most of those remixes. Some of them are crap. But every time I complain, someone comes up and says they are for a different market that you don't understand. Some of the New Order ones are really great, though. "

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

" 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. "

" The interesting thing is that New Order finished on an okay note. It was only after we split that things got worse. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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