When you get the right people together, writing music becomes very effortless.
From Peter Hook
What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.
I was reading an article about Kings of Leon's bass player, who said that he was directly influenced by Joy Division and by me. I was like, 'Woah!' It surprised me. It's a great compliment.
I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.
It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends.
The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!
America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it!
But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when you make a mistake and laugh about it.
I'd rather have ten people who are mad for it than ten thousand who aren't.
It's the same misconception I used to have. I meet people and think they're millionaires and they're not.
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