Peter Hook

What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.

When you've travelled for 34 years as a musician, you do all the culture stuff when you're young and full of energy. In the middle stage, you indulge too much and are scared of daylight. Then, in the final stage, you've seen it all, so you tend to take things a lot easier.

At my age, I only travel business class because I just don't bend anymore; my body can't cope with it.

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.

24 Hour Party People' was a comedy, and I knew that from the beginning.

When you're fat and comfortable, your music is going to sound fat and comfortable.

Over the years, Joy Division has become a huge part of music culture.

When I started DJing years ago, I took great delight in annoying the audience. Playing Johnny Cash in the middle of a banging night.

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

There are so little outtakes from the Joy Division era. We didn't have much money. You couldn't be very generous in recording, so we were very thrifty in how we recorded. Everything was very, very well looked after financially because we just couldn't afford it.

For the first 18 months of Joy Division, we used our jobs to fund the band. We'd all chip in three, five quid to go and do a gig. But it was worth it. It was amazing we could afford to feed ourselves. But we were so creatively and artistically satisfied. You can't explain that to somebody who's never been there.

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.