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Landscape affects you.
I entered music at a poppy level.
You can't escape from yourself, can you?
It's not in my nature to be too literal.
I saw the Sex Pistols, and they were terrible.
With guitar, bass and drums, you've got limited horizons.
I'm not interested in the past or in talking about myself.
I see all the musicians in Blur with equal standing, really.
As you get older, you kind of take a more sober view of life.
The story of New Order is all about learning from our mistakes.
You can't put rubbish into a computer and get something good out.
I'm very proud of New Order and Joy Division, that heritage of songs.
II'm quite a successful musician, but I'm not sure if it's my vocation.
The drummer is the backbone of the band and is the real underrated one.
I believe that every business and company takes two years to establish.
Joy Division sounded like Manchester: cold, sparse and, at times, bleak.
I tend to think in images and feelings rather than non-abstract concepts.
If someone throws you in a pool and you can't swim, you're going to struggle.
I knew from working with New Order that I enjoyed working with Phil Cunningham.
It's impossible to capture every single facet of someone's personality in a film.
By the time I was leaving school, there were no factories. There was no industry.
When Joy Division started, I was scared to death of having to get a normal day job.
I like a challenge. I like learning new skills because I didn't learn much at school.
I think that if you're on the same team, you should be pushing in the same direction.
Part of the reason I joined Joy Division was so that I really wouldn't have to grow up.
Playing live is great, but it's not a creative thing, really. It's a reproductive thing.
I'm not interested in how well someone can sing. It's what you're singing that interests me.
I was no good at anything else at school. But I was good at one thing, which was creativity.
New Order has always been a hybrid band. We always mixed guitar, bass, drums with electronic.
If you choose to take a path in life, don't blame other people for the path you've chosen to take.
Being a single mother in the late 1950s was a very shocking thing - and dreadful thing - for people.
I'm sure every time I bring something out that isn't New Order, people say it sounds like New Order.
I think every day how incredibly lucky it is that I travel around the world playing to thousands of people.
I used to be a party monster, very into Acid House, which I saw as my weekend reward for working hard all week.
The guitarist always looks a bit clever because he's got so many strings and apparently knows what to do with them.
I think New Order have got their own sound. But what we like to do is experiment, using dance music and other things.
As human beings, we all mature physically from childhood to adolescence and then into adulthood, but our emotions lag behind.
Los Angeles produced the Beach Boys. Dusseldorf produced Kraftwerk. New York produced Chic. Manchester produced Joy Division.
If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.
It can be an educational thing to play your songs to people because you see where you've gone right and where you've gone wrong.
There's only two choices when life goes wrong. You deal with it, or you check out, and, like 90% of people, I go for the former.
I get writer's block all the time. The only way I can write what I consider to be good lyrics is to put myself through the mill.
I first read about hypnotism at school, and I used to do tricks like getting a really skinny guy to arm wrestle the local bully.
In New Order, I played about 95% of the synths. It's not much fun for the other guys in the band when I'm playing my synth parts.
I'd had to cope with a lot of death and illness in my family from a young age, and that maybe gave me a bleak outlook on the world.
There's challenges in life that present themselves unexpectedly, and if you rise to them, then those challenges will toughen you up.
I like singing now, but I didn't at the start. I didn't think about singing, didn't know how to do it, so I hit the ground stumbling.
There were certain things I couldn't do with New Order without upsetting the rest of the band, so I started to write some solo stuff.
If I work on music, it'll be for 10 hours a day, so sometimes I'll feel stressed, and I'll go for a two-hour walk. That sorts me out.
One of the things I like about music is it's an abstract art, totally abstract, where you can convey an emotion, which I find amazing.