Bernard Sumner
Bernard Sumner

As human beings, we all mature physically from childhood to adolescence and then into adulthood, but our emotions lag behind.

Bernard Sumner
Bernard Sumner

You can't escape from yourself, can you?

Bernard Sumner
Bernard Sumner

Where I grew up was a place called Salford, which was the industrial heartland of Manchester. And where I lived in Salford, I could walk to the center of Manchester within about 20 minutes. So I lived really close to the center.

Bernard Sumner
Bernard Sumner

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

Bernard Sumner
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
Bernard Sumner

Landscape affects you.

Bernard Sumner
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
Bernard Sumner

If you're driving around or at home with the stereo blasting pure dance track, it gets boring within about 15 minutes. It doesn't work at home like it does in a nightclub. You've got no atmosphere.

Bernard Sumner
Bernard Sumner

I like a challenge. I like learning new skills because I didn't learn much at school.

Bernard Sumner
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
Bernard Sumner

I think every day how incredibly lucky it is that I travel around the world playing to thousands of people.

Bernard Sumner
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
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
Bernard Sumner

You have to find balance. Whenever I start feeling stressed or not feeling myself, it's about balance, and it means I need to find it again.

Bernard Sumner
Bernard Sumner

Joy Division sounded like Manchester: cold, sparse and, at times, bleak.

Bernard Sumner
Bernard Sumner

I saw the Sex Pistols, and they were terrible.

Bernard Sumner
Bernard Sumner

I think that if you're on the same team, you should be pushing in the same direction.

Bernard Sumner
Bernard Sumner

Choosing a name for a band is always a difficult thing, and I don't think people should read too much into a name because, after all, it's just a handle. It doesn't mean anything.

Bernard Sumner
Bernard Sumner

I think in South America people are very, uh, they have no inhibitions and wear their hearts on their sleeves - what's the word? They're very expressive, demonstrative.

Bernard Sumner
Bernard Sumner

If you hear a New Order track that's mostly electronic, it's generally come about through one person sitting at a computer and programming it.