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

" 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. "

" Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing. "

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

" Once you made that decision to split New Order up, you were like, 'Woo-hoo! I better get out there and get a job.' "

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

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

" I play a lot of hard, uncompromising dance music; it can be anything from dance to rock to reggae. "

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" 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. "

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" 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 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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