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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it! "

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

" 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. "

" To be in one band that changed the world musically is pretty good, but to be in two bands that changed the world musically, that's amazing. "

" I am always working on new material with my production partner Phil Murphy in our guise as Man Ray; we do a lot of soundtrack work & some great collaborations. "

" Any coalition, especially where one party is more powerful than the other, it's always bound to have a pecking order. "

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

" Dance music tends to be a solitary affair. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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! "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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