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" When I started DJing years ago, I took great delight in annoying the audience. Playing Johnny Cash in the middle of a banging night. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" There are lots of Joy Division songs that are so powerful when played live, some of which we did either never play or played very rarely. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My big frustration in New Order was that they played the same tracks all the time. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "