Ian Curtis Quotes

Pictures all around, of how good a life should be, a model for the rest, that bred insecurity, I walked a jagged line and then came back for more, it's always in my mind, an institution with no law.

When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low. When resentment rides high, but emotion won't grow ... and we're changing our ways, taking different roads. Love will tear us apart.

Nothing seems real anymore. Even the flames from the fire seem to beckon to me, drawing me into some great past life buried somewhere deep in my subconscious, if only I could find the key..if only..if only. Ever since my illness, my condition, I've been trying to find some logical way of passing my time, of justifying a means to an end.

I like the groups on Factory, A Certain Ratio and Section 25. I

Well, subconsciously I suppose some things must stick but I'm not influenced consciously by them.

All my lyrics are open to interpretation by the individual and imply many different meanings, therefore their relevance is purely subjective.

The things that we've learned are no longer enough.

I struggle between what I know is right in my own mind, and some warped truthfulness as seen through other people's eyes who have no heart, and can't see the difference anyway.

We said we'd never tour ... and we'll never do a tour, I don't think - or if we do it won't be longer than about two weeks.

Love, love will tear us apart, again.

We're changing our ways, taking different roads, and love will tear us apart again.

They [ Factory Records] are always looking for the next group, the next big thing, to bring the record sales in and for them to promote and everything, but Factory just sign who they want to, put records by who they want to out, package it how they want to, how they like doing it. It's just run like that.

I used to work in a factory and I was really happy because I could daydream all day.