Peter Hook
You look at 30 Seconds to Mars, and you don't think, 'Ooh, I bet they're angry.' No one really does anger these days. I suppose it's a turn-off.Collection: Anger
I am man enough to be able to admit my own mistakes. I think that is an important trait to have.
I'm one of those old cynics that thinks, whoever you vote for, the government always gets in.
What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.
Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.
You can't buy class.
The chemistry involved made everything Factory did quite special.
Knowing very little about a band only adds to the allure.
'24 Hour Party People' was a comedy, and I knew that from the beginning.
Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest!
Madonna's like a black widow spider. She tends to use people, then they shrivel up and disappear.
There are seven songs finished and on par with any that are on Siren's.
A poetic, sensitive, tortured soul, the Ian Curtis of the myth - he was definitely that.
When you DJ, you're just on your own, which is nice because there's no argument.
My father was always Labour, and my mother was always Conservative, so I tended to sort of go in the middle.
Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.
America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it!
I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it.
That's it really, at the moment I wouldn't say I was influenced by any one thing in particular.
And they do tend to be fast and up, because that's how I like to drive.
But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when you make a mistake and laugh about it.
It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends.
I'd rather have ten people who are mad for it than ten thousand who aren't.
Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing.
The fact is that you don't want to be away forever, but you want to lead a normal life.
Yeah, I still feel as if I have things to do really. I'm not ready to stop.
When you balance it against New Order, New Order don't work or tour relentlessly. We definitely work in our own way and sometimes it's a bit too slow for me, so I like to plan ahead and fill my time up.
It's the same misconception I used to have. I meet people and think they're millionaires and they're not.
I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.
We need to talk about what we are going to do and see and decide. We'll have to wait and see.
The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!
They amaze me most of those remixes. Some of them are crap. But every time I complain, someone comes up and says they are for a different market that you don't understand. Some of the New Order ones are really great, though.
We've had a problem finding a vocalist. We have not been lucky yet to find the one. I think the problem is that the three of us have such a pedigree of vocalist, that if we come out with someone that's not good we'll obviously be slated!
We don't to be some kind of rock supergroup for the sake of being a supergroup. You want to change things and say something fresh and new so you appeal to people as a new group.
The break-up of a relationship is always difficult, especially a 30-year one.
'Movement' sounded like Joy Division, but 'Power, Corruption & Lies' is the first New Order record.
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.
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.
'Love Will Tear Us Apart' is very simply written.
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.
To be in one band that changed the world musically is pretty good, but to be in two bands that changed the world musically, that's amazing.
I look back on Joy Division very fondly indeed. I know that, of course, the band came to a tragic end, but that does not change the fact that Joy Division was a great band to be a part of.