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.

It's a pleasure playing your big hit records and it's a real joy to see the audience.

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book.