19 Quotes by Ian Curtis

I can now see everything falling to pieces before my eyes.

All my lyrics are open to interpretation by the individual and imply many different meanings, therefore their relevance is purely subjective.

I struggle between what I know is right in my own mind, and some warped truthfulness as seen through other people’s eyes who have no heart, and can’t see the difference anyway.

The things that we’ve learned are no longer enough.

Well, subconsciously I suppose some things must stick but I’m not influenced consciously by them.

I like the groups on Factory, A Certain Ratio and Section 25. I.

Pictures all around, of how good a life should be, a model for the rest, that bred insecurity, I walked a jagged line and then came back for more, it’s always in my mind, an institution with no law.

You cry out in your sleep – all my failings expose. There’s a taste in my mouth, as desperation takes holdJust that something so good just can’t function no more. When love, love will tear us apart again.

We play the music we want to play and we play the places we want to play. I’d hate to be on the usual record company where you get an album out and you do a tour, and you do all the Odeon’s and all the this that and the others. I couldn’t just do that at all.