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.
From Bernard Sumner
I see all the musicians in Blur with equal standing, really.
In Salford, we had fish in our tap water. I remember, one hot summer day, running to the toilet at playtime and dunking our heads in a sink full of water. I remember putting my head in and seeing all these little fish in it.
Being a single mother in the late 1950s was a very shocking thing - and dreadful thing - for people.
By the time I was leaving school, there were no factories. There was no industry.
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 I work on music, it'll be for 10 hours a day, so sometimes I'll feel stressed, and I'll go for a two-hour walk. That sorts me out.
I think that if you're on the same team, you should be pushing in the same direction.
New Order has always been a hybrid band. We always mixed guitar, bass, drums with electronic.
The story of New Order is all about learning from our mistakes.
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