Top 85 Quotes by Bernard Sumner

We're all private people, but as a musician, I think that once you get to the point where there's more of your life behind you than in front of you, you owe it to your public to explain yourself.

You spend more time with your fellow band members than your girlfriend or wife, and you end up at each other's throats. It happens to all bands.

If you have a bereavement in your family, it's a terrible, terrible thing. But, you know, time passes. It's part of the cycle. It doesn't hurt so much.

Los Angeles produced the Beach Boys. Dusseldorf produced Kraftwerk. New York produced Chic. Manchester produced Joy Division.

I like a challenge. I like learning new skills because I didn't learn much at school.

I'm not interested in how well someone can sing. It's what you're singing that interests me.

As you get older, you kind of take a more sober view of life.

If you hear a New Order track that's mostly electronic, it's generally come about through one person sitting at a computer and programming it.

II'm quite a successful musician, but I'm not sure if it's my vocation.

Playing live is great, but it's not a creative thing, really. It's a reproductive thing.