92 Quotes by Bernard Sumner

If you hear a New Order track that's mostly electronic, it's generally come about through one person sitting at a computer and programming it.

As you get older, you kind of take a more sober view of life.

I think New Order have got their own sound. But what we like to do is experiment, using dance music and other things.

If you're driving around or at home with the stereo blasting pure dance track, it gets boring within about 15 minutes. It doesn't work at home like it does in a nightclub. You've got no atmosphere.

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.

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.

Landscape affects you.