Peter Hook

“I find it very difficult to listen to Joy Division. The music's wonderful, but the memories are very painful.”

“We were just four lads from Manchester. We didn't know what we were doing, but we were doing it with a passion.”

“In Joy Division, we had a sense of mission. In New Order, we had a sense of fun.”

“Ian Curtis was a great lyricist, a great frontman, and a great friend.”

“The Haçienda was a bloody nightmare. But it was our nightmare, and it was a wonderful nightmare.”

“The great thing about New Order was that we were a democracy. It was the bad thing about New Order as well.”

“The breakdown of a band is like a divorce. It is.”

“My bass playing is quite distinctive, and I think it's because I was never taught, and I was never told I was wrong.”

“The bass guitar is the best instrument in the world. It’s the glue that holds the band together.”

“You've got to be true to yourself. You've got to be your own man.”

“The thing about Manchester is... it's a city of extremes. It's a city of great highs and great lows.”

“It's a wonderful thing, as a musician, to be able to stand on stage and have the audience singing your words back to you.”

“Joy Division was a very democratic group. We all wrote the music, we all had a say in what we did.”

“When you start a band, you're not a musician. You're a gang. You're a family.”

“I don't think there's been a band in the history of rock 'n' roll that has been as disastrous as New Order.”