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In Salford, we had fish in our tap water. I remember, one hot summer day, running to the toilet at playtime and dunking our heads in a sink full of water. I remember putting my head in and seeing all these little fish in it.

It's not in my nature to be too literal.

Bernard Sumner

Los Angeles produced the Beach Boys. Dusseldorf produced Kraftwerk. New York produced Chic. Manchester produced Joy Division.

Bernard Sumner

There's challenges in life that present themselves unexpectedly, and if you rise to them, then those challenges will toughen you up.

Bernard Sumner

Joy Division finished the 1970s on a high. Our debut album, 'Unknown Pleasures,' was doing well; we'd just finished a hugely enjoyable and successful tour. The band's profile was higher than it had ever been, and it seemed to be growing by the day.

Bernard Sumner

My mother, Laura Sumner, had cerebral palsy. She was born absolutely fine, but after about three days, she started having convulsions that left her with a condition that would confine her to a wheelchair her entire life.

Bernard Sumner

People come up to me and say, 'You changed my life.' I don't think I changed anyone's life. I think their life changed while they were listening to the music.

Bernard Sumner

The drummer is the backbone of the band and is the real underrated one.

Bernard Sumner

When Joy Division started, I was scared to death of having to get a normal day job.

Bernard Sumner

I entered music at a poppy level.

Bernard Sumner

Part of the reason I joined Joy Division was so that I really wouldn't have to grow up.

Bernard Sumner

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.

Bernard Sumner

Landscape affects you.

Bernard Sumner

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.

Bernard Sumner

We played at a festival in Mexico City, at the same time as another famous artist, and I reckon we had 55,000 people watching New Order; the other had 7,000. I think from that I've discovered the secret of success in the music industry: don't do any promotion.

Bernard Sumner

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.

Bernard Sumner

We're all private people, but as a musician, I think that once you get to the point where there's more of your life behind you than in front of you, you owe it to your public to explain yourself.

Bernard Sumner

If you have a bereavement in your family, it's a terrible, terrible thing. But, you know, time passes. It's part of the cycle. It doesn't hurt so much.

Bernard Sumner

I saw the Sex Pistols, and they were terrible.

Bernard Sumner

I've realized that I owe people a look behind the scenes of my own story, because I don't think anyone can have a true understanding of the music without an insight into where it came from.

Bernard Sumner

The words that I'm most happy with are the ones that come from my subconscious rather than my conscious. They just feel right. I think that's the same with music, really. If you're doing an album, there's ten or eleven sets of lyrics, so you get to the point of inspiration ten or eleven times - it's difficult.

Bernard Sumner

I think if you take 'Get Ready,' 'Waiting For The Siren's Call,' 'Lost Sirens' - those three New Order albums were mostly guitar-based. There were a couple of dance tunes in there, but they were mainly guitar-oriented. They came about through jamming, a lot of them.

Bernard Sumner

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.

Bernard Sumner

As you get older, you kind of take a more sober view of life.

Bernard Sumner

I never met Morrissey.

Bernard Sumner

I'm terrible with decisions. And I can't make myself do something I don't like. I can't knuckle under.

Bernard Sumner

If someone throws you in a pool and you can't swim, you're going to struggle.

Bernard Sumner

It's impossible to capture every single facet of someone's personality in a film.

Bernard Sumner

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.

Bernard Sumner

By the time I was leaving school, there were no factories. There was no industry.

Bernard Sumner

In Salford, we had fish in our tap water. I remember, one hot summer day, running to the toilet at playtime and dunking our heads in a sink full of water. I remember putting my head in and seeing all these little fish in it.

Bernard Sumner

I'm not interested in the past or in talking about myself.

Bernard Sumner

If you choose to take a path in life, don't blame other people for the path you've chosen to take.

Bernard Sumner