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I have a hard time getting my head around the idea of playing 'The Perfect Kiss' in my 50s. I can't quite get there.

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

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

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

I prefer it when I can intimidate the audience rather than the audience intimidate me. I've been lucky in my career to have both.

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

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

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

What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.

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

'Unknown Pleasures' is a very important record for me. It was the first LP that I recorded.

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

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

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.

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

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

You can't buy class.

Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.

The chemistry involved made everything Factory did quite special.

'Love Will Tear Us Apart' is very simply written.

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

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.

Old men are cantankerous: they like to get their own way.

I am man enough to be able to admit my own mistakes. I think that is an important trait to have.

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

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

When you get the right people together, writing music becomes very effortless.

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

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

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

People go and hide, but I don't. I'm a fighter.

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

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

Accept what you did do, and live with it.

I've never been out of work in my whole life.

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

There's a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead - it's like love and hate.

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

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.

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

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

I love that young bands will do anything to succeed.

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

And they do tend to be fast and up, because that's how I like to drive.

Dance music tends to be a solitary affair.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 regularly go to concerts with my children sharing the music.

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

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

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

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

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

I'd rather have ten people who are mad for it than ten thousand who aren't.

'24 Hour Party People' was a comedy, and I knew that from the beginning.

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

The worst words I could ever hear as a bass player was, 'Can you play the root notes?'

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

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

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

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

Bootleggers quake in fear of me ringing them on a Sunday afternoon. I call after dinner, usually.

Knowing very little about a band only adds to the allure.

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!

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

New Order never celebrated anything to do with Joy Division.

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

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