Bootleggers quake in fear of me ringing them on a Sunday afternoon. I call after dinner, usually.
When I'm not playing music, certainly the last thing I want to do is listen to music!
When you're fat and comfortable, your music is going to sound fat and comfortable.
You can't buy class.
Music was such an important part of everyone's life in the '60s and '70s, but everywhere you played, the music was dreadful.
I just like keeping busy and having ten things on the go.
There are so many bootlegged Joy Division/Martin Hannett tapes, a lot of really bad bootlegs on the Internet.
Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.
I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it.
New Order never celebrated anything to do with Joy Division.
I've never been out of work in my whole life.
I play a lot of hard, uncompromising dance music; it can be anything from dance to rock to reggae.
The interesting thing is that New Order finished on an okay note. It was only after we split that things got worse.
Yeah, I still feel as if I have things to do really. I'm not ready to stop.
The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!
It's really nice to be able to do what I'm doing without having to compromise with another musician.
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.
'24 Hour Party People' was a comedy, and I knew that from the beginning.
Any coalition, especially where one party is more powerful than the other, it's always bound to have a pecking order.
My big frustration in New Order was that they played the same tracks all the time.
Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.
Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest!
It was an amazing mistake to lose 10p on every copy because your sleeve is so expensive.
Bands don't play the whole LP. They play a selection of the songs that they like.
You don't get many chances in the world, and you don't want to throw them away.
And they do tend to be fast and up, because that's how I like to drive.
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'd rather have ten people who are mad for it than ten thousand who aren't.
Over the years, Joy Division has become a huge part of music culture.
