That's it really, at the moment I wouldn't say I was influenced by any one thing in particular.
Great music seems to come from a lot of angst, and that angst is from great musicians getting together with intense chemistry. When that chemistry isn't there, people tend not to write great music.
Knowing very little about a band only adds to the allure.
It's the same misconception I used to have. I meet people and think they're millionaires and they're not.
When you're fat and comfortable, your music is going to sound fat and comfortable.
I love that young bands will do anything to succeed.
My father was always Labour, and my mother was always Conservative, so I tended to sort of go in the middle.
You don't get many chances in the world, and you don't want to throw them away.
Yeah, I still feel as if I have things to do really. I'm not ready to stop.
It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends.
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.
We loved country songs in New Order. That's our big secret!
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.
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.
It's really nice to be able to do what I'm doing without having to compromise with another musician.
Madonna's like a black widow spider. She tends to use people, then they shrivel up and disappear.
'Unknown Pleasures' is a very important record for me. It was the first LP that I recorded.
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.
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've never been out of work in my whole life.
For the first 18 months of Joy Division, we used our jobs to fund the band. We'd all chip in three, five quid to go and do a gig. But it was worth it. It was amazing we could afford to feed ourselves. But we were so creatively and artistically satisfied. You can't explain that to somebody who's never been there.
Bootleggers quake in fear of me ringing them on a Sunday afternoon. I call after dinner, usually.
A poetic, sensitive, tortured soul, the Ian Curtis of the myth - he was definitely that.
'Love Will Tear Us Apart' is very simply written.
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.
Bands don't play the whole LP. They play a selection of the songs that they like.
'Movement' sounded like Joy Division, but 'Power, Corruption & Lies' is the first New Order record.
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.
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!