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Whenever I make music, it reflects where I'm at mentally.

I always felt like there were always egos involved when I was trying to get music finished in New Order. Sometimes it would feel like I was running through water.

There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.

I feel really different from other musicians.

When you're making music or playing a song, I find the moments when there are no instruments being played even stronger than when they are being played. Because they add tension. It's also an ego-less thing - a place where you have no ego - when you're with a bunch of musicians who stop and listen instead.

Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.

And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.

For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.