92 Quotes by Bernard Sumner

With guitar, bass and drums, you've got limited horizons.

I'm sure every time I bring something out that isn't New Order, people say it sounds like New Order.

I think every day how incredibly lucky it is that I travel around the world playing to thousands of people.

Joy Division finished the 1970s on a high. Our debut album, 'Unknown Pleasures,' was doing well; we'd just finished a hugely enjoyable and successful tour. The band's profile was higher than it had ever been, and it seemed to be growing by the day.

I'm terrible with decisions. And I can't make myself do something I don't like. I can't knuckle under.

If you have a bereavement in your family, it's a terrible, terrible thing. But, you know, time passes. It's part of the cycle. It doesn't hurt so much.

I felt that by the late '90s, I'd gone as far as I could with the keyboard.

I think in South America people are very, uh, they have no inhibitions and wear their hearts on their sleeves - what's the word? They're very expressive, demonstrative.

It's weird: people used to want your autograph; now what they want to do is to take your photograph with an iPhone. And sometimes they'll pop their arm around you to hold their iPhone; they're shaking when they take it.