Peter Hook Quotations

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

The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!

It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends.

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!

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.

It's the same misconception I used to have. I meet people and think they're millionaires and they're not.

I'd rather have ten people who are mad for it than ten thousand who aren't.

Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.

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.

Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest!

The chemistry involved made everything Factory did quite special.

But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when you make a mistake and laugh about it.

Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing.

And they do tend to be fast and up, because that's how I like to drive.

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

The fact is that you don't want to be away forever, but you want to lead a normal life.

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

We need to talk about what we are going to do and see and decide. We'll have to wait and see.

Yeah, I still feel as if I have things to do really. I'm not ready to stop.

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.

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.

If we wrote a song that was nine minutes long, it was nine minutes long, and that was it. That was our attitude back then. A lot of the single edits came about because the different record companies in different countries couldn't get our songs on the radio because they were too long. Because we wouldn't play ball, they went ahead and did their own edits. There was stuff on Singles that I'd never listened to, to be honest. But I was very impressed. Now when I deejay, I actually play a lot of New Order singles, which is great. I sort of rediscovered them.

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.

In fact, Steven's daughter didn't know what a CD was. They don't want to be bothered to put one on. They want to push a computer button.

It was an amazing mistake to lose 10p on every copy because your sleeve is so expensive.

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.

I suppose in the end it's almost too easy to look back and say what you should have done, how you might have changed things. What's harder - what's much, much harder - is to accept what you actually did do.

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

Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.

When digital recording came in about '84, everything started to follow into digital. Now, you've got the best recording media in the world, but it's not very pleasing to the ear.