Yeah, I still feel as if I have things to do really. I'm not ready to stop.

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!!

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

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.

It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool

As you go along your road in life you will if you aim high enough also meet resistance ... but no matter how tough the opposition may seem have courage still-and persevere.

Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.

With any level of success you get some non-musical things that come along - money, ego - and it's easy to lose your perspective and get off doing what you did to get there.

There's no such thing as 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' There's only 'smart sell' and 'stupid sell.'

We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.

The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing.

There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.

Sexy, to me, doesn't have anything to do with beautiful.

It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.