Bernard Sumner Quotes
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There's parts of touring I like. I like the actual performance part, but the bit when you're in the airport waiting at the carousel for your bags to come around, I don't like that a bit.
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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.
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As you get older, you kind of take a more sober view of life.
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I knew from working with New Order that I enjoyed working with Phil Cunningham.
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I tend to think in images and feelings rather than non-abstract concepts.
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New Order has always been a hybrid band. We always mixed guitar, bass, drums with electronic.
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Being a single mother in the late 1950s was a very shocking thing - and dreadful thing - for people.
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It's not in my nature to be too literal.
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If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.
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I entered music at a poppy level.
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There's only two choices when life goes wrong. You deal with it, or you check out, and, like 90% of people, I go for the former.
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It's impossible to capture every single facet of someone's personality in a film.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think every day how incredibly lucky it is that I travel around the world playing to thousands of people.
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I first read about hypnotism at school, and I used to do tricks like getting a really skinny guy to arm wrestle the local bully.
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I see all the musicians in Blur with equal standing, really.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I never knew my father. He'd disappeared from the scene before I was born, and I still have no idea who he is. Perhaps strangely, it's never bothered me; I certainly don't believe it's really affected me.
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I was no good at anything else at school. But I was good at one thing, which was creativity.
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It's disrespectful to the older generation to have long hair. They fought in two world wars; they didn't fight for us to grow our hair and look like girls.