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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.

From Bernard Sumner

I first read about hypnotism at school, and I used to do tricks like getting a really skinny guy to arm wrestle the local bully.

From Bernard Sumner

We didn't play any Joy Division songs for 10 years after the start of New Order, which was a very honourable thing to do even if it meant shooting ourselves in the foot.

From Bernard Sumner

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.

From Bernard Sumner

I think if you take 'Get Ready,' 'Waiting For The Siren's Call,' 'Lost Sirens' - those three New Order albums were mostly guitar-based. There were a couple of dance tunes in there, but they were mainly guitar-oriented. They came about through jamming, a lot of them.

From Bernard Sumner

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.

From Bernard Sumner

As you get older, you kind of take a more sober view of life.

From Bernard Sumner

Where I grew up was a place called Salford, which was the industrial heartland of Manchester. And where I lived in Salford, I could walk to the center of Manchester within about 20 minutes. So I lived really close to the center.

From Bernard Sumner

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

From Bernard Sumner

If you're driving around or at home with the stereo blasting pure dance track, it gets boring within about 15 minutes. It doesn't work at home like it does in a nightclub. You've got no atmosphere.

From Bernard Sumner

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