A biography for Peter Hookhasn’t been written yet.
“Bass players are always the underdogs of the band, but I made sure that I was never viewed as one. I went out of my way to steal as much limelight as I could.”
“At my age, I only travel business class because I just don't bend anymore; my body can't cope with it.”
“Old men are cantankerous: they like to get their own way.”
“America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it!”
“There are so little outtakes from the Joy Division era. We didn't have much money. You couldn't be very generous in recording, so we were very thrifty in how we recorded. Everything was very, very well looked after financially because we just couldn't afford it.”
“My mother used to always say to me, 'Do naught, get naught.' It's an adage that I hold by. If you don't do anything, you can't really expect anything.”
“We don't to be some kind of rock supergroup for the sake of being a supergroup. You want to change things and say something fresh and new so you appeal to people as a new group.”
“People go and hide, but I don't. I'm a fighter.”
“I've been very grateful and humbled by the fact that young people really dig Joy Division's music. It's a great testament to the chemistry and the songwriting prowess between the four original members.”
“Any coalition, especially where one party is more powerful than the other, it's always bound to have a pecking order.”
“I regularly go to concerts with my children sharing the music.”
“I am man enough to be able to admit my own mistakes. I think that is an important trait to have.”
“Music was such an important part of everyone's life in the '60s and '70s, but everywhere you played, the music was dreadful.”
“I look back on Joy Division very fondly indeed. I know that, of course, the band came to a tragic end, but that does not change the fact that Joy Division was a great band to be a part of.”
“I'd rather have ten people who are mad for it than ten thousand who aren't.”
“The chemistry involved made everything Factory did quite special.”
“When you DJ, you're just on your own, which is nice because there's no argument.”
“That's it really, at the moment I wouldn't say I was influenced by any one thing in particular.”
“Dance music tends to be a solitary affair.”
“The interesting thing is that New Order finished on an okay note. It was only after we split that things got worse.”