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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I tend to think in images and feelings rather than non-abstract concepts.
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I knew from working with New Order that I enjoyed working with Phil Cunningham.
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As you get older, you kind of take a more sober view of life.
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It's not in my nature to be too literal.
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New Order has always been a hybrid band. We always mixed guitar, bass, drums with electronic.
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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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Being a single mother in the late 1950s was a very shocking thing - and dreadful thing - for 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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The words that I'm most happy with are the ones that come from my subconscious rather than my conscious. They just feel right. I think that's the same with music, really. If you're doing an album, there's ten or eleven sets of lyrics, so you get to the point of inspiration ten or eleven times - it's difficult.
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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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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 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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It's impossible to capture every single facet of someone's personality in a film.
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I entered music at a poppy level.
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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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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 think every day how incredibly lucky it is that I travel around the world playing to thousands of people.
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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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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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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.
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I see all the musicians in Blur with equal standing, really.