Цитаты из книги Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division

But we didn't care. We were punks.

It's one of the strange things about writing a book like this, actually. You start seeing your life as series of chance happenings that somehow come together to make you what you are.

I suppose in the end it's almost too easy to look back and say what you should have done, how you might have changed things. What's harder - what's much, much harder - is to accept what you actually did do.

What was obvious about Ian was that he was pouring everything into it; he wasn't playing at being in a band. My lyrics were just words on a page whereas his were coming from somewhere else, his soul.

Of the two portrayals of him on film, I prefer the one in 24 Hour Party People. The guy in Control, Sam Riley, played him as being much more arty and conventionally pretty then he was in real life, whereas Sean Harris in 24 Hour Party People had a bit more of the real-life Ian's edginess and intensity. Neither were perfect and neiter were totally off the mark, but for my money Harris was the more accurate.

Мы настраивали звук в клубе Mayflower и играли „Transmission“, все, кто был в клубе, вдруг остановились и стали слушать. Я удивился: что с ними? И только тогда я понял, что это была наша первая по-настоящему классная песня»