Bernard Sumner Quotes

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

New Order has always been a hybrid band. We always mixed guitar, bass, drums with electronic.

I think New Order have got their own sound. But what we like to do is experiment, using dance music and other things.

The lion's share of what I listened to in the Eighties, what really affected me, was coming from Britain.

I mean, you could have said Elvis Presley was new wave when it happened. I heard Willy DeVille and Tom Petty and to me they were new wave really because they were new.

I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.

I'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter Gabriel, U2, the Police, Radiohead, and Coldplay.

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.

I started dating JD Samson from Le Tigre, and suddenly I was listening to more up-tempo music and old dance music, like ESG and Gang of Four, and I thought, 'Wow. This is fun.'

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

I loved the whole New Romantic, New Wave thing... New Order, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, Blancmange, Yazoo.

I wanted people to say that our music sounds like Porcupine Tree, not that it sounds like King Crimson.

I love PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Pixies, Portishead, and Massive Attack: a lot of what I would describe as alternative and indie music.

I used to love Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, and the Human League.

We didn't play any Joy Division songs for 10 years after the start of New Order, which was a very honourable thing to do even if it meant shooting ourselves in the foot.

In a way, I pattern myself after all the bands I used to like as a kid. Every time they put out LPs, they had a whole new look and a new sound.

So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!

We've always described our sound as a bit more guitar driven than normal pop music. Kind of Pink in a boy band form. We've heard a few people say that so now we use it. I think Pink is amazing person to be compared to.

I don't know if I was a poseur - I really did love metal, always - but I gave a lot of other things a chance. I wanted to meet, um, girls, so I would check out 'Depeche Mode.'

I grew up in the eighties; that's probably why I like some of the earlier electronic from Kraftwerk to all throughout new wave and things like that.

I just got exposed to electronica, and I really liked it. I am also good with alternative rock. I like Lana Del Rey, Adele, Dido, Jack Johnson, and I love the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like listening to Pavement it's just The Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.

New Order never celebrated anything to do with Joy Division.

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.

I won't say I'm analog. I'm not like Jack White. I'm more like 1991.