As human beings, we all mature physically from childhood to adolescence and then into adulthood, but our emotions lag behind.
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.
The drummer is the backbone of the band and is the real underrated one.
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.
I like a challenge. I like learning new skills because I didn't learn much at school.
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.
I think every day how incredibly lucky it is that I travel around the world playing to thousands of people.
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.
There's challenges in life that present themselves unexpectedly, and if you rise to them, then those challenges will toughen you up.
Joy Division sounded like Manchester: cold, sparse and, at times, bleak.
I think that if you're on the same team, you should be pushing in the same direction.
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.
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.
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.