131 Quotes by Peter Hook

We've had a problem finding a vocalist. We have not been lucky yet to find the one. I think the problem is that the three of us have such a pedigree of vocalist, that if we come out with someone that's not good we'll obviously be slated!

When you balance it against New Order, New Order don't work or tour relentlessly. We definitely work in our own way and sometimes it's a bit too slow for me, so I like to plan ahead and fill my time up.

One of the sad facts of this world is that as you try and balance your group life against your home life, everything takes longer.

I love dance music, it started with me in '88 and has never left me. It's what I consider to be my driving music, whenever I'm in the car!

We came straight out of the studio into six months of promotion then into festivals for six months. We've never really had any time off.

Yeah, but the excitement of driving around town is palpable. My experience with downloading is not... I'm not computer friendly. My children are!

We're still working on it. We've just been on a mammoth hunt for a singer. Because of the singers the three of us have had in the past, it's sort of a big thing to measure anybody by. As for the music itself, it's a really weird cross between northern soul, reggae, New Order, Stones Roses and the Smiths. The three basses work together on a few tracks, which I was delighted about, because everyone was laughing at us for wanting to do it.

When we stopped New Order and had to start again there was obviously going to be a gap, which to the fans seemed like a quite long one.

This LP from start to finish is the longest we've ever done, which was three and a half years. God knows how long the next one's gonna be.