Musician

When you DJ, you're just on your own, which is nice because there's no argument.

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.

They amaze me most of those remixes. Some of them are crap. But every time I complain, someone comes up and says they are for a different market that you don't understand. Some of the New Order ones are really great, though.

The chemistry involved made everything Factory did quite special.

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

Once you made that decision to split New Order up, you were like, 'Woo-hoo! I better get out there and get a job.'

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.

I just like keeping busy and having ten things on the go.

The rise of the iPod meant that digital music became the norm, It's sad, but you can still find the real stuff out there if you look for 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.

Any coalition, especially where one party is more powerful than the other, it's always bound to have a pecking order.

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.

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

I'm one of those old cynics that thinks, whoever you vote for, the government always gets in.

Accept what you did do, and live with it.

We loved country songs in New Order. That's our big secret!

The interesting thing is that New Order finished on an okay note. It was only after we split that things got worse.

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.

That's it really, at the moment I wouldn't say I was influenced by any one thing in particular.

I must confess that over my career, I've actually downplayed the importance of DJs. It's such a different art form. Then all of a sudden you try it, and you think, 'Good God, these guys do work.' I used to be very cynical and very blase about it. I can only apologize.