Bernard Sumner

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. ”

If you're a lead singer, then you can't afford to be sensitive. On stage, everyone looks at the lead singer, even if you don't want them to - in America, they have those massive follow spots on you all the time; it does your head in. So, if you are a lead singer and you don't toughen up, you're in the wrong job, and you have to get out. ”

I'm sure every time I bring something out that isn't New Order, people say it sounds like New Order. ”

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. ”

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. ”

By the time I was leaving school, there were no factories. There was no industry. ”

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. ”

If you have a bereavement in your family, it's a terrible, terrible thing. But, you know, time passes. It's part of the cycle. It doesn't hurt so much. ”

New Order has always been a hybrid band. We always mixed guitar, bass, drums with electronic. ”

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. ”