There are seven songs finished and on par with any that are on Siren's.

'Love Will Tear Us Apart' is very simply written.

Madonna's like a black widow spider. She tends to use people, then they shrivel up and disappear.

New Order never celebrated anything to do with Joy Division.

A poetic, sensitive, tortured soul, the Ian Curtis of the myth - he was definitely that.

Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest!

Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.

Knowing very little about a band only adds to the allure.

The reason Joy Division and New Order are as influential and successful as they are is because of the unique playing of all the individuals.

There are lots of Joy Division songs that are so powerful when played live, some of which we did either never play or played very rarely.

People go and hide, but I don't. I'm a fighter.

It's really nice to be able to do what I'm doing without having to compromise with another musician.

I just like keeping busy and having ten things on the go.

When I play a gig and look out at the audience, you're literally looking at a sea of Joy Division T-shirts.

I'm one of those old cynics that thinks, whoever you vote for, the government always gets in.

I regularly go to concerts with my children sharing the music.

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.

I don't find imitating other people's music easy at all. I remember being fifth in line for a Rolling Stones tour, early '90s, when Bill Wyman left, and I was hoping against hope that I wouldn't get the call to audition. I wouldn't be able to play a Stones song if you put a gun to my head.

'Unknown Pleasures' is a very important record for me. It was the first LP that I recorded.

Most people have just heard Joy Division on record. And Joy Division on record was completely different than it was live.

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.

Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing.

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 chemistry involved made everything Factory did quite special.

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.

'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.