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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" We need to talk about what we are going to do and see and decide. We'll have to wait and see. "

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

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" 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 just like keeping busy and having ten things on the go. "

" 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've watched so-called 'New Order' playing in Auckland, and Tom Chapman is miming along to my bass on tape... He's got his fingers on the low, and you can hear my high bass in the background. So he's miming. "

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

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

" The reason Joy Division and New Order are as influential and successful as they are is because of the unique playing of all the individuals. "

" 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! "

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

" 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 chemistry involved made everything Factory did quite special. "

" 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. "

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

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

" In the late '70s, the conditions that bands had to endure were, shall we say, not as civilized as they are today. People were a lot more aggressive back then. So there was definitely a lot of suffering for your art. But I would argue that was a good thing. Generally, people make better music when they suffer. "

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

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" There are seven songs finished and on par with any that are on Siren's. "