“There's parts of touring I like. I like the actual performance part, b...” — Bernard Sumner Quote

There's parts of touring I like. I like the actual performance part, but the bit when you're in the airport waiting at the carousel for your bags to come around, I don't like that a bit.

As human beings, we all mature physically from childhood to adolescence and then into adulthood, but our emotions lag behind.

If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.

If you're driving around or at home with the stereo blasting pure dance track, it gets boring within about 15 minutes. It doesn't work at home like it does in a nightclub. You've got no atmosphere.

We had training camp for a week, and we used the actual military drills of that period. We didn't have to work out much after hours, because going up and down hills all day was a good workout in itself.

I've managed to keep my career going in a way that suits me. I'll perform, and then I'll go home to my actual life, and I've never been so visible.

You need to focus on creating the actual value of the company, not just the theoretical value. The actual value comes from a great product that sells well and is ultimately profitable.

As time passes, the actual complexity of our history - even of our own personal experience - gets buried under the weight of the ideal image.