I've realized that I owe people a look behind the scenes of my own story, because I don't think anyone can have a true understanding of the music without an insight into where it came from.

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• Bernard Sumner:

  Los Angeles produced the Beach Boys. Dusseldorf produced Kraftwerk. New York produced Chic. Manches

• Bernard Sumner:

  Joy Division sounded like Manchester: cold, sparse and, at times, bleak.

• Bernard Sumner:

  My mother, Laura Sumner, had cerebral palsy. She was born absolutely fine, but after about three da

• Bernard Sumner:

  I never knew my father. He'd disappeared from the scene before I was born, and I still have no idea

• Bernard Sumner:

  I entered music at a poppy level.

• Bernard Sumner:

  I like singing now, but I didn't at the start. I didn't think about singing, didn't know how to do

• Bernard Sumner:

  If someone throws you in a pool and you can't swim, you're going to struggle.

• Bernard Sumner:

  I'm not interested in the past or in talking about myself.

• Eugene Chadbourne:

  There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

• Eugene Chadbourne:

  There's no type of music I don't like. I think it's important to be able to make fun of all types.