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

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.

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.

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!!

The chemistry involved made everything Factory did quite special.

Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.

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

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.

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

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.

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!

Never forget the first three letters of confidence.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

Everyone's a nerd inside. I don't care how cool you are.

In 1910, eighty-two-year-old Leo Tolstoy flees from his wife and dies in a railway station of exposure.

Impossibility is more possible than everything which we hold to be possible.

I like to say that before we can create an external space in which to receive people, we have to create an internal space in which to receive them.

They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.

Show kindness and respect to everyone. Pure intentions make the biggest difference.

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.