To me, New Order split up when Bernard and I stopped writing together. We started Joy Division together; we started New Order together.
I don't pretend to be Joy Division or New Order. What I do is very straight forward: it's an interpretation and a celebration of the music, with different people. Everyone looks at it and knows exactly what I'm doing.
Old men are cantankerous: they like to get their own way.
I prefer it when I can intimidate the audience rather than the audience intimidate me. I've been lucky in my career to have both.
Once you made that decision to split New Order up, you were like, 'Woo-hoo! I better get out there and get a job.'
My mother used to always say to me, 'Do naught, get naught.' It's an adage that I hold by. If you don't do anything, you can't really expect anything.
'24 Hour Party People' was a comedy, and I knew that from the beginning.
Bands don't play the whole LP. They play a selection of the songs that they like.
I read one too many books about Joy Division by people who weren't there, and they always seem to dwell on the dark, the intense, the miserable image of Joy Division.
Music was such an important part of everyone's life in the '60s and '70s, but everywhere you played, the music was dreadful.
I love that young bands will do anything to succeed.
The thing with Joy Division's music is that each member was playing like a separate line. We hardly ever played together; we all played separately. But when you put it together, it was like the ingredients in a cake.
I've never been out of work in my whole life.
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!
When you DJ, you're just on your own, which is nice because there's no argument.
I have a hard time getting my head around the idea of playing 'The Perfect Kiss' in my 50s. I can't quite get there.
When you've travelled for 34 years as a musician, you do all the culture stuff when you're young and full of energy. In the middle stage, you indulge too much and are scared of daylight. Then, in the final stage, you've seen it all, so you tend to take things a lot easier.
At my age, I only travel business class because I just don't bend anymore; my body can't cope with it.
I must confess that over my career, I've actually downplayed the importance of DJs. It's such a different art form. Then all of a sudden you try it, and you think, 'Good God, these guys do work.' I used to be very cynical and very blase about it. I can only apologize.
I play a lot of hard, uncompromising dance music; it can be anything from dance to rock to reggae.
