“I've watched so-called 'New Order' playing in Auckland, and Tom Chapma...” — Peter Hook Quote

“I've watched so-called 'New Order' playing in Auckland, and Tom Chapman is miming along to my bass on tape... He's got his fingers on the low, and you can hear my high bass in the background. So he's miming.”

“Music was such an important part of everyone's life in the '60s and '70s, but everywhere you played, the music was dreadful.”

“When I started DJing years ago, I took great delight in annoying the audience. Playing Johnny Cash in the middle of a banging night.”

“We've had a problem finding a vocalist. We have not been lucky yet to find the one. I think the problem is that the three of us have such a pedigree of vocalist, that if we come out with someone that's not good we'll obviously be slated!”

“I am man enough to be able to admit my own mistakes. I think that is an important trait to have.”

“My big frustration in New Order was that they played the same tracks all the time.”

“I went to see my first gig when I was 15 - it was Loyle Carner at Shepherd's Bush - and I remember just feeling the bass in my feet and in my body. I was so energised.”

“I was a bass fisherman. I liked bass. That was my thing.”

“I find it really easy to write on the bass, because you kind of get straight to the point: you do lyrics and melody without thinking about decorating the song until after you've finished it.”

“If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be with some musicians and follow them, I wouldn't be able to do it. And I want to change that.”

“Back in the day, being a young, inspired bass player, I started to gravitate toward jazz fusion. I almost would have called myself an elitist. I got to the point where, for a little bit there, I was more interested in instrumental music.”

“I'm the quiet bass player.”