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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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As human beings, we all mature physically from childhood to adolescence and then into adulthood, but our emotions lag behind.
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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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I'm sure every time I bring something out that isn't New Order, people say it sounds like New Order.
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You spend more time with your fellow band members than your girlfriend or wife, and you end up at each other's throats. It happens to all bands.
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Playing live is great, but it's not a creative thing, really. It's a reproductive thing.
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I used to be a party monster, very into Acid House, which I saw as my weekend reward for working hard all week.
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There were certain things I couldn't do with New Order without upsetting the rest of the band, so I started to write some solo stuff.
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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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I always felt like there were always egos involved when I was trying to get music finished in New Order. Sometimes it would feel like I was running through water.
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If you start off writing an album with a band, the reality is that you're constantly in each other's company, so it's really important that you get on with each other.
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When Joy Division started, I was scared to death of having to get a normal day job.
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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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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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One of the things I like about music is it's an abstract art, totally abstract, where you can convey an emotion, which I find amazing.
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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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I get writer's block all the time. The only way I can write what I consider to be good lyrics is to put myself through the mill.
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If it wasn't for John Peel, there would be no Joy Division and no New Order. He was one of the few people to give bands that played alternative music a chance to get heard, and he continued to be a champion of cutting-edge music throughout his life.
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I'm not interested in how well someone can sing. It's what you're singing that interests me.
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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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I think that if you're on the same team, you should be pushing in the same direction.
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If I work on music, it'll be for 10 hours a day, so sometimes I'll feel stressed, and I'll go for a two-hour walk. That sorts me out.
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You have to find balance. Whenever I start feeling stressed or not feeling myself, it's about balance, and it means I need to find it again.
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By the time I was leaving school, there were no factories. There was no industry.
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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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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.
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The guitarist always looks a bit clever because he's got so many strings and apparently knows what to do with them.
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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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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.
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I think New Order have got their own sound. But what we like to do is experiment, using dance music and other things.
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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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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.
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