92 Quotes by Bernard Sumner

Part of the reason I joined Joy Division was so that I really wouldn't have to grow up.

If it wasn't for John Peel, there would be no Joy Division and no New Order. He was one of the few people to give bands that played alternative music a chance to get heard, and he continued to be a champion of cutting-edge music throughout his life.

I saw the Sex Pistols, and they were terrible.

There's only two choices when life goes wrong. You deal with it, or you check out, and, like 90% of people, I go for the former.

I get writer's block all the time. The only way I can write what I consider to be good lyrics is to put myself through the mill.

I'd had to cope with a lot of death and illness in my family from a young age, and that maybe gave me a bleak outlook on the world.

The words that I'm most happy with are the ones that come from my subconscious rather than my conscious. They just feel right. I think that's the same with music, really. If you're doing an album, there's ten or eleven sets of lyrics, so you get to the point of inspiration ten or eleven times - it's difficult.

When Joy Division started, I was scared to death of having to get a normal day job.

I tend to think in images and feelings rather than non-abstract concepts.