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There were certain things I couldn't do with New Order without upsetting the rest of the band, so I started to write some solo stuff.

When I joined New Order, I was made to feel equal to everyone else in the band so I didn't feel like an outsider. I was treated equally, I was paid equally, and my opinion was sought after.

When I go to see people, I always kind of hope they are going to play some kind of songs I know. So you've got to know your audience. It's kind of something that is a blessing and a curse in a way. You're obligated to play some of that stuff that people know, but I don't think that's all you have to do.

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals.

Once you've changed who you are or who you've portrayed in your music, the fans, they'll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.

I don't think shoving my butt into people's faces will tell them anything about who I am. How is that connecting to your audience? What is that doing for your music?

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.

They tell me I produced songs. I just stood in the back, wore a good suit and said, Yeah, that's happening.