Quotes from Peter Hook

It's really nice to be able to do what I'm doing without having to compromise with another musician.

Great music seems to come from a lot of angst, and that angst is from great musicians getting together with intense chemistry. When that chemistry isn't there, people tend not to write great music.

My mother used to always say to me, 'Do naught, get naught.' It's an adage that I hold by. If you don't do anything, you can't really expect anything.

I play a lot of hard, uncompromising dance music; it can be anything from dance to rock to reggae.

They amaze me most of those remixes. Some of them are crap. But every time I complain, someone comes up and says they are for a different market that you don't understand. Some of the New Order ones are really great, though.

'Movement' sounded like Joy Division, but 'Power, Corruption & Lies' is the first New Order record.

The reason Joy Division and New Order are as influential and successful as they are is because of the unique playing of all the individuals.

New Order never celebrated anything to do with Joy Division.

We loved country songs in New Order. That's our big secret!

'Unknown Pleasures' is a very important record for me. It was the first LP that I recorded.

I've stayed in hotels where you were scared to even put your feet on the floor, or had to sleep in a chair.

Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.

The rise of the iPod meant that digital music became the norm, It's sad, but you can still find the real stuff out there if you look for it!

The worst words I could ever hear as a bass player was, 'Can you play the root notes?'

To me, New Order split up when Bernard and I stopped writing together. We started Joy Division together; we started New Order together.

Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing.

I'm not a good flyer. Because I do it so much, I think the odds of something going wrong are not in my favour.

Old men are cantankerous: they like to get their own way.

Any coalition, especially where one party is more powerful than the other, it's always bound to have a pecking order.

I love that young bands will do anything to succeed.

Knowing very little about a band only adds to the allure.

There are keyboard terrorists everywhere who hide behind a veil of anonymity to pursue their vicious slanders.

I always do try to encourage my children to vote and at least exercise their right.

Bass players are always the underdogs of the band, but I made sure that I was never viewed as one. I went out of my way to steal as much limelight as I could.