When you are in your 20’s and 30’s, you just want a hit record and you don’t really care how it happens.

I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I’ll just record it there and then.

that you’ve got to dust yourself off.

Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

I don’t ever wish I was somebody else.

Anything can inspire me – a conversation, something strikes you about words which can end up being a title.

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

I think every songwriter must feel as we do, but somehow no one who has recorded one of our numbers has made as good a job as we had hoped.

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

[The result was] Stranger in a Strange Land, … Guilty Pleasures.

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.

I think vocally and mentally we’ve managed to stay intact, somehow.

Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.

Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

I never really did any disco dancing.

We could have been sleeping on park benches now but fortunately everything turned out well, much better than we had ever hoped.””

It’s very questionable, and we will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice’s life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now...

I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.

The Bee Gees are a fly-by-night sort of group.

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn’t work out that way if someone else records it.

My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.

We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we’ve delved into.

We had to leave Australia to become international stars.

I’ve worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

Sure I’m leaving the Bee Gees. I’m going into films.

By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.

The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.

The Bee Gees will not disintegrate because we’ve lost Mo.”

You are never really prepared for criticism.

I will always have my songs and I don’t think I will ever dry-up.

I like every part of the pop business – though I’m sick and tired of back-biters.

Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.

I’ve changed my lifestyle and diet. I don’t eat red meat and I’ve cut out dairy products.

Unknown to myself, I damaged all my joints.

I’ve never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing.

No one so far has been able to get the proper feel of a song.

But sooner or later these bubbles burst anyway, and I would like for the Bee Gees to stop before we wane.

The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you’ve got to come home.

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man’s daughter would not understand blues.

After all, when we arrived in London, we had nothing. We were unknown. We had no recording contract and no work.

The other secret is that Linda and I are still in love. And being really in love doesn’t go away. It’s also about being friends.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

Fortunately I can still play the guitar, but I have to strap my wrists up to give them support. It’s the twisting of the wrist that causes the pain, so it’s OK.

And now we can’t really accept what we’ve done and where we are when we read what the magazines are saying.

I don’t want to live on past records.