92 Quotes by Bernard Sumner

When there's no stimulus to be found on the outside, you have no option but to look inside yourself for inspiration, and when I did it set off a creativity that had always been inside of me, It mixed with my environment and life experiences to make something tangible,something that expressed me.

Time is a curious thing. When you have it before you, it's something you take for granted and it moves slowly. Then, as you get older, it accelerates. When I look back, it seems such a long distance travelled, so long ago, so dream-like.

I don’t think you miss what you’ve never had.

Silence descended again and I just thought to myself, There’s got to be more than this. When there’s no stimulus to be found on the outside, you have no option but to look inside yourself for inspiration, and when I did it set off a creativity that had always been inside me.

Life shapes you, and what life does to you shapes your art.

Time is a curious thing. When you have it before you, it’s something you take for granted and it moves slowly. Then, as you get older, it accelerates. When I look back, it seems such a long distance travelled, so long ago, so dream-like.

Lou Reed never came back to Manchester after that, all because of one bloke with a dodgy haircut and incredible aim.

As human beings, we all mature physically from childhood to adolescence and then into adulthood, but our emotions lag behind.

The drummer is the backbone of the band and is the real underrated one.