Peter Hook

“'Unknown Pleasures' is a very important record for me. It was the first LP that I recorded.”

“When I play a gig and look out at the audience, you're literally looking at a sea of Joy Division T-shirts.”

“The reason Joy Division and New Order are as influential and successful as they are is because of the unique playing of all the individuals.”

“I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it.”

“I always do try to encourage my children to vote and at least exercise their right.”

“The worst words I could ever hear as a bass player was, 'Can you play the root notes?'”

“There's a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead - it's like love and hate.”

“There are so many bootlegged Joy Division/Martin Hannett tapes, a lot of really bad bootlegs on the Internet.”

“To me, New Order split up when Bernard and I stopped writing together. We started Joy Division together; we started New Order together.”

“Bands don't play the whole LP. They play a selection of the songs that they like.”

“I read one too many books about Joy Division by people who weren't there, and they always seem to dwell on the dark, the intense, the miserable image of Joy Division.”

“Madonna's like a black widow spider. She tends to use people, then they shrivel up and disappear.”

“There are seven songs finished and on par with any that are on Siren's.”

“For the first 18 months of Joy Division, we used our jobs to fund the band. We'd all chip in three, five quid to go and do a gig. But it was worth it. It was amazing we could afford to feed ourselves. But we were so creatively and artistically satisfied. You can't explain that to somebody who's never been there.”

“It was nice doing my own Joy Division book to be able to put forward the fact that Ian was actually quite a nice guy and very hardworking, ambitious and loyal. But the thing was, he was battling such a dreadful illness in an era when they really didn't know how to treat it.”

“I don't pretend to be Joy Division or New Order. What I do is very straight forward: it's an interpretation and a celebration of the music, with different people. Everyone looks at it and knows exactly what I'm doing.”

“I love that young bands will do anything to succeed.”

“I've watched so-called 'New Order' playing in Auckland, and Tom Chapman is miming along to my bass on tape... He's got his fingers on the low, and you can hear my high bass in the background. So he's miming.”

“I've stayed in hotels where you were scared to even put your feet on the floor, or had to sleep in a chair.”

“Bootleggers quake in fear of me ringing them on a Sunday afternoon. I call after dinner, usually.”