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" One of the great things about education is that it should stop you making mistakes - and I have made a lot of mistakes. "

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" Originally, I didn't play any New Order when I deejayed. I suppose it comes from being a little embarrassed or humble or whatever. But people were coming to see me because of New Order, so in the end, I had to realize that if they were using my name on the poster, then maybe I should play some of the music. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Sarcasm is a Manchester trait. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" There are so many bootlegged Joy Division/Martin Hannett tapes, a lot of really bad bootlegs on the Internet. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I always do try to encourage my children to vote and at least exercise their right. "

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

" You don't get many chances in the world, and you don't want to throw them away. "

" Yeah, I still feel as if I have things to do really. I'm not ready to stop. "

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

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

" 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. "