Danielle Trussoni Quotes

My favorite band is probably The Cure. We can throw Talking Heads in there too, I listen to them a lot. But The Cure.

I grew up listening to bands like the Cure, Joy Division, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance - these are the bands that I actually grew up with, and I always had these things in my taste, too. And I always loved industrial music as well: I listened to Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Cabaret Voltaire. And shoegaze bands like Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine.

When I listen to Joy Division, it doesn't sound particularly English.

I really like Cold Cave.

What is remarkable about Joy Division is the way they are bereft of two of the mainstays of most other rock and pop: longing and supplication.

I love Nirvana, Joy Division, and New Order - older alternative, I guess.

I just love The Cure. I think that their songwriting is so next level, and I really like the juxtaposition between this bad boy attitude and a softer, more emotional idea.

Over the years, Joy Division has become a huge part of music culture.

Joy Division sounded like Manchester: cold, sparse and, at times, bleak.

There's no place for Depeche Mode and the Sisters of Mercy in the music I make with my band. If I was a fan, I wouldn't want to hear that on a Black Veil Brides record. It was important for me and for the integrity of the band not to tarnish it.

My whole life, I've loved '80s synth and goth rock like The Sisters of Mercy and Depeche Mode.

I'm sure every time I bring something out that isn't New Order, people say it sounds like New Order.

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.

Like, Mission Of Burma to me always sounded almost like they were part of the British Arty New Wave. I kind of like that. I like not being able to tell the difference.

I was very into New Order, Joy Division, all of that when I was younger. I had a lot of bootlegs that I saved up my pocket money to buy. I had all the obscure early EPs.

The first music I ever got into was the '80s alternative bands that my brother listened to, like The Cure and The Smiths and R.E.M. and Fugazi. I can remember specifically saying The Cure was my favorite band back in second grade.

'Movement' sounded like Joy Division, but 'Power, Corruption & Lies' is the first New Order record.

From the ashes of Bauhaus, Love and Rockets transformed its grandiosity and excesses into boldness and virtuosity. Plus, it wasn't afraid of a catchy hook or two.

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.

There are lots of Joy Division songs that are so powerful when played live, some of which we did either never play or played very rarely.

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.

When The Fall pummeled their way into my nervous system, circa 1983, it was as if a world that was familiar - and which I had thought too familiar, too quotidian to feature in rock - had returned, expressionistically transfigured, permanently altered.

I was a big fan of the Rain Parade, Green on Red, X, the Rolling Stones.

I'm very proud of New Order and Joy Division, that heritage of songs.