Bernard Sumner

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. ”

My mother, Laura Sumner, had cerebral palsy. She was born absolutely fine, but after about three days, she started having convulsions that left her with a condition that would confine her to a wheelchair her entire life. ”

If you choose to take a path in life, don't blame other people for the path you've chosen to take. ”

We're all private people, but as a musician, I think that once you get to the point where there's more of your life behind you than in front of you, you owe it to your public to explain yourself. ”

When you grow up without a brother or sister, you tend to see things just through your own eyes. You have friends and everything, but you spend most of your time watching TV or sat in a room making decisions about your life on your own. ”

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. ”

I believe that every business and company takes two years to establish. ”

I'm not interested in how well someone can sing. It's what you're singing that interests me. ”

I think New Order have got their own sound. But what we like to do is experiment, using dance music and other things. ”

If something I do now sounds like something I did in the past, it's because I played it. I can't help sounding like myself. That's going to happen. The things that I play on guitar that resonate with me are probably the same things that resonated with me when I started playing in Joy Division. ”