Peter Hook

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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