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.'

I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it.

In the late '70s, the conditions that bands had to endure were, shall we say, not as civilized as they are today. People were a lot more aggressive back then. So there was definitely a lot of suffering for your art. But I would argue that was a good thing. Generally, people make better music when they suffer.

I try to develop others. I get a great deal of joy out of helping people who, over the years, I've spent a lot of time mentoring - and just trying to get them to another level.

The god most Americans say they believe in is just not interesting enough to deny. Thus the only kind of atheism that counts in America is to call into question the proposition that everyone has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.